middle-endian

adj. Not big-endian or little-endian. Used of perverse byte orders such as
3-4-1-2 or 2-1-4-3, occasionally found in the packed-decimal formats of
minicomputer manufacturers who shall remain nameless. See NUXI problem.
Non-US hackers use this term to describe the American mm/dd/yy style of
writing dates (Europeans write little-endian dd/mm/yy, and Japanese use
big-endian yy/mm/dd for Western dates).

