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The correct pronounciation of "byte" is "beet"
- ZeroGravitas 13y agoAm I missing something? "The word was coined by mutating the word ‘bite’ so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit. See also nybble."
- jaachan 13y agoTop of the page says "byte: /bi:t/, n.", though there's no explanation for why it says so. Wikipedia says "ˈbaɪt"
- Piskvorrr 13y agoThe IPA transcription is somewhat suspicious, especially as "The word was coined by mutating the word ‘bite’ so it would not be accidentally misspelled as bit." (ibid) I'm pretty sure that mutating [bait] to [bi:t] is somewhat complicated; also, e.g. Wiktionary lists the pronunciation as [bait]: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/byte http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/byte Moreover, "correct" is rather subjective (and malleable in time), especially where English is concerned: "gay" once meant "merry," and "meme" didn't always mean "cat pictures subtitled with Impact"; does that mean the current usage is incorrect? That's not to mention the pronunciation of "tomato," etc. (cue linguistic flamewar)