> Personally, the middle options for the first 2 sections (BIT and TRIT via shared vowel) are what I always mentally jumped to. If I was going to stick with "te

> Personally, the middle options for the first 2 sections (BIT and TRIT via shared vowel) are what I always mentally jumped to. If I was going to stick with "ternary" terminology I think, from a pure mapping of mental mechanics, I'd have ended up on TET (i.e. when there is no shared vowel assume the vowel was from the first word instead of the 2nd). The problem with that being TET conflicts with base 4, leaving you with either the awkward double vowel or the awkward end vowel pull. Or just calling it a trinary digit where you get the same consistency results as from BIT. If I had been trying to come up with something, I probably would have started with an approach of picking something that was as similar-sounding to "bit" as possible so it would be recognizable and then looking for a justification I could use to argue why it was consistent rather than trying to figure out what the origin of "bit" is and then utilizing the same formula. Interestingly, this would have ended up at basically the same place as you, since I would have first thought of "tit", rejected it due to it not seeming likely to get adopted due to the connotations, and then picked "trit" as the next closest thing.