Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
A unit of information equal to one million million (10¹²) or strictly, 2⁴⁰ bytes.
- ‘His network operations center oversees 350 million terabytes of data and a network that keeps engineering humming around the globe.’
- ‘Those little gray boxes will hold not just gigabytes but terabytes and someday maybe petabytes.’
- ‘One terabyte is about 1,000 gigabytes, and most people probably cannot shoot enough digital photos within the next 10 years to fill that kind of space.’
- ‘Moving terabytes of data through servers becomes impractical and degrades the overall system.’
- ‘We had about a terabyte of digital information already - but we expected to need space for four times that much within 18 months.’
- ‘There is an estimated one million terabytes of online information, and this amount is growing with every new web page that is posted.’
- ‘But midrange and high-end appliances storing gigabytes and terabytes of data require sophisticated backup approaches such as tape libraries.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity.