> "You learn something new every day" item for today:  "Byte" is 
   > spelled with a "y" so that a single typing 
   > error (omitting or adding the "e" by mistake) would not give a 
   > valid but wrong alternative, so byt and bite 
   > would be easy to spot as errors.  
   > Howard Winter
   > St.Albans, England
   > 
  
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