tittles

Noun

tittle (plural tittles)

1. Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
   • The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks')
2. (broadly) A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
   • I am living fast to see the time when a book that misses its tide shall be neglected, as the moon by day, or like mackerel a week after the season. No man has more nicely observed our climate than the bookseller who bought the copy of this work; he knows to a tittle what subjects will best go off...1704, Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub

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