Thursday, November 17, 2016

Did You Know/Todays Term

Did You Know?

An “eggcorn” is a linguistic error in which the user idiosyncratically substitutes a word or phrase for a similar sounding word or phrase in their dialect, such as saying “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes”—the term was coined by linguist Geoffrey Pullum in response to a case linguist Mark Liberman was dealing with, wherein a woman referred to acorns as “egg corns”.

Today's Tech Term 

Storage At The Edge

Storage At The Edge (a.k.a. Edge Storage) refers to the storage strategy and backup routines for preserving valuable data on portable and/or mobile devices like mobile phones, small tablets, notebook computers, digital cameras, etc.

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