The Bible and the Hittites, Exploding another 'Biblical Archaeology' Myth.

So, why did they call them Hittites? When they found that the Anatolian kingdom didn't ever really give itself a name, did some guy just say something like, "Hey, guys! Looks like we found us the missing Hittites over here!" out of sarcasm? Were they just putting a name with no people together with a people with no name?

I understand that they were given the name 'Hittites'. My question is more on the subject of why that particular term was chosen. Did the original archaeologists who discovered the kingdom think it was the Biblical Hittite kingdom, so they named it that, but later it turned out not to be, but the name stuck?I just don't see why they weren't named the 'Hattites' or something similar. JIM's explanation makes sense, that somehow the pronunciations got mixed up and it turned into 'Hittite'.