Trivia question
By bargaingirl
@bargaingirl (844)
United States
October 16, 2007 9:38pm CST
What is the name of the dot on a lower-case letter 'i'?
First with the correct response will get a best response!
3 responses
@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
17 Oct 07
It's called a tittle. A tittle is a small distinguishing mark, such as a diacritic or the dot over an i or a j.
The tittle first appeared in Latin manuscripts in the 11th century, to distinguish the letter i from strokes of nearby letters. Although originally a larger mark, it was reduced to a dot when Roman-style typefaces were introduced.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle
@bargaingirl (844)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Yep! You hit the nail on the head, or should I say you put the tittle on the I.
@ryanphil01 (4182)
• Philippines
18 Oct 07
my deepest appreciation for marking mine BR.
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@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
30 Oct 07
Well I just learned something new today.
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@bargaingirl (844)
• United States
17 Oct 07
Close but not quite. I had to look it up to make sure lol. Thanks for responding though!
