What’s A News Octet?
One of my peeves is the phrase “news byte”.
A “news bite”, I can understand: it’s a bite-sized, i.e., small piece of news; something that fits on a napkin.
But a “news byte”? What is that? A news item that can only take on one of 256 values and fits into a C char?
The same goes for “sound bite” and “sound byte”, by the way.