Sycophants
The Case For: Word turns out to mean “people who tell you where the figs are”.
The Case Against: Is not related the word meaning “people who tell you where the unhealthy elephants are”.
24-bit Computing
The Case For: Represents signed integers of up to 8,388,607 in a single word.
The Case Against: Most implementations are really 16-bit and they just leave the other eight bits in the junk drawer.
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