15 Awesome Names For Things You Never Knew Had Names
13. Tittle
Not to be confused with something that may need grawlix to censor it, a tittle can actually be found in the word tittle: it refers to the superscript dot on the lowercase I or J. Like most words on this list, it is rarely used, its most prominent usage being in the Bible at Matthew 5:18:
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Even then, its used figuratively. Its lack of use may have something to do with the fact that, in English, as you dot all your Is and have no diacritics, theres just not much use for it. For an example to the contrary, some Turkish languages include both dotted and undotted Is representing different phonemes. In still other languages, the tittle is not even used on Is to distinguish a plain I from one that has a diacritic, such as í.
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