Mertcan Bulak
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Computers have been around since at least 1613, when being a computer was a skilled profession practised by mathematicians who worked in observatories adding up numbers. When Charles Babbage invented the precursor of the modern computer he called it an Analytical Engine , and when his son improved on the design he called it a Mill , on the basis that mills were complicated technical things and that, like his new machine, they took stuff in at one end and spat different stuff out at the other.
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Bogeys and bugs have always been pretty much interchangeable. Then, in the mid - seventeenth century, bug mysteriously started to mean insect . Perhaps this was because insects are terrifying, or perhaps because they used to get into your bed like a bogeyman. The first six - legged bug on record was a bedbug in 1622.
In the eighteenth century a bugaboo (which is of course a variant bogeyman) became thieves’ slang for a sheriff’s officer, or policeman. Nineteenth - century burglars were therefore scared of bugaboos or bugs for short. But they kept burgling anyway, and burglaries continued all the way into the twentieth century. Indeed, they were so common that people started to set up burglar alarms, and in the 1920s burglars began to call burglar alarms bugs on the basis that they acted like an automated policeman. If a solicitous homeowner had fitted an alarm within his house, the joint was said to be bugged .
You have two teams that have equal status, but when they argue you need somebody of higher status to judge between them. This referee is not on a par with them. In Latin he was a non-par and in Old French he was a noumpere , but then something happened to the N and he became an umpire .
If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition ; and if you’re not jovial but miserable and saturn ine that’s a disaster, because a disaster is a dis-astro , or misplaced planet . Disaster is Latin for ill-starred .