On 6 May 2008 at 19:59, Harold Fuchs wrote:
...
> >> Perhaps he bit off more than he can chew.  ;-)
> >>     
> >
> > Pehaps he should nibble.
> >
> > :-|
> >
> >   
> That should be "nybble" - half a byte. No, really: 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble> ;-)

A bit dogmatic :-)  Even that article allows both spellings (and 
indeed seems to prefer -i- for British English), as does 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble


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