# ATA vs AUC

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### ATA
*noun · frequency rank #27,369*
Advanced Technology Attachment; a computer bus technology primarily designed for transfer of data to and from a hard disk. (Renamed PATA when SATA came into existence to more clearly distinguish the two.)

### AUC
*adverb · frequency rank #48,600*
According to the Roman era, which reckons the number of years passed from the foundation of the city of Rome by Romulus, now usually taken as 753 bc.

## Source
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