their inclusion into this chapter is warranted by their occasional appearance in technical literature, as well as the levity they add to an otherwise dry subject:
Bit: A single, bivalent unit of binary notation. Equivalent to a decimal "digit."
Crumb, Tydbit, or Tayste: Two bits.
Nibble, or Nybble: Four bits.
Nickle: Five bits.
Byte: Eight bits.
Deckle: Ten bits.
Playte: Sixteen bits.
Dynner: Thirty-two bits.
Word: (system dependent).
-- Bharathwaj Muthuswamy, Intro to Digital Circuits
http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee100/su07/handouts/IntroductionToDigitalSystems.pdf