Is it Tidbit or titbit?

[Wendyer]

I thought titbit but keep seeing tidbit.

UK English: titbit
American English: tidbit

^This. US prefers one, UK prefers the other. Neither is wrong. That won't stop a whole thread full of people insisting the one they say is right and the other one's wrong though.

Bill Bryson writes about it in one of his books. Short version: Titbit was changed to tidbit in the States because it was a bit too naughty-sounding. So now both go, but UK version is titbit.

I was only thinking about this myself today...it's tit.

Titbit

I'm old enough to remember there used to be a magazine 'Titbits' which was a family gossipy-type - all innocent if I remember rightly and was around for many years.

My grandad used to get Titbits every week. And Reveille. And the Scottish Sunday Post. This was back in the late nineteen-sixties & early seventies. I used to like the cartoons & puzzles in them.

Titbits often had bikini-clad young women on the cover, but that was as racy as it got.

Titbit

Titbit.

@FatOaf

I'm old enough to remember there used to be a magazine 'Titbits' which was a family gossipy-type - all innocent if I remember rightly and was around for many years.

My grandad used to get Titbits every week. And Reveille. And the Scottish Sunday Post. This was back in the late nineteen-sixties & early seventies. I used to like the cartoons & puzzles in them.

Titbits often had bikini-clad young women on the cover, but that was as racy as it got.

I remember Titbits and Reveille. Goodness that was a long time ago.

My bothers used to buy them, probably partly for the bikini-clad young women on the cover. I remember thinking that was very 'racy' when I was a kid

As others have said: Titbit UK English, Tidbit USA English.

As it happens I'm getting a red squiggly line under Tidbit.

@banivani

Bill Bryson writes about it in one of his books. Short version: Titbit was changed to tidbit in the States because it was a bit too naughty-sounding. So now both go, but UK version is titbit.

I think this is correct. I'm an American and have never heard it as titbit, always tidbit.

It doesn't matter as we were told (by our French teacher) that the 't' or 'b' was silent so it was ti'bit.
Think how Inspector Clousea would say it...

Tit

Why are you none the wiser - English = titbit

US = tidbit.

Depends where you are!

Tit

I wondered when the magazine ' Titbits ' would come up ( shows age)
It was very 70s, lots of scantily clad women were featured and gossip pages!

@SeasonFinale

Why are you none the wiser - English = titbit

US = tidbit.

Depends where you are!

I’m very much the wiser now, thank you to everyone.

Although I’m tempted to go with the Inspector Clouseau pronunciation:)

Titbit

@SeasonFinale

Why are you none the wiser - English = titbit

US = tidbit.

Depends where you are!

Yes, this is correct.

Stuntbubbles - best answer so far.