Knuth's new word: wyde!

D. Richard Hipp writes "I just made my quarterly pilgramage to Don Knuth's web site where I descovered that he has coined a new word, "wyde", and is encouraging people to use it to mean a 16-bit quantity. He also advocates the use of "tetrabyte" and "octabyte" to mean 32-bit and 64-bit values. See his arguments for these new words here Opinions, anyone? "