Prithee English texts, and the difference between the two terms has been debated by scholars. Scholars such as Roger Brown and Albert Gilman have suggested that "prithee" was an ingroup indicator. Other scholars suggest that it is simply the more deferential form. The relationship between the two is complicated by the phrase "beseech you", which was used in the same time period and was clearly the form used most deferentially. Although the closest Modern English equivalent of "prithee" is "please", the two terms presume different attitudes within the addressee. While "please" accompanies a request addressing itself to the positive desire of
Word-addressable Word-addressable Word-addressable is a computer architecture term. In computer architecture, a word is an ordered set of bytes or bits that is the normal unit in which information may be stored, transmitted, or operated on within a given computer. If a computer's memory is word-addressable then each word in memory is assigned its own memory address. This means that the processor is able to address and fetch only complete words from the memory. Such computers are sometimes called "word machines" (in contrast to "byte machines"). Typically, if a processor has a fixed-length instruction set, then the instruction length equals the