Comma vs Tittle - What's the difference?
comma | tittle |
Punctuation]] mark ([[, ) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list).
(by extension) A diacritical mark used below certain letters in Romanian.
A European and North American butterfly, , of the family Nymphalidae.
(music) a difference in the calculation of nearly identical intervals by different ways.
(genetics) A delimiting marker between items in a genetic sequence.
In Ancient Greek rhetoric a comma (?????) is a short clause, something less than a colon, originally denoted by comma marks. In antiquity comma was defined as a combination of words that has no more than eight syllables. This term is later applied to longer phrases, e.g. the Johannine comma.
A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters (i) and (j).
* 1590 , Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
* 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :
* 1987 , Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance , page xii:
*:: (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of ") "tittles" )
* 2008 , Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters :
As nouns the difference between comma and tittle
is that comma is punctuation mark (,) (usually indicating a pause between parts of a sentence or between elements in a list) while tittle is a small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.As a proper noun Tittle is
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Noun
(en-noun)Derived terms
(punctuation mark) * commaless * Harvard comma * inverted comma * Oxford comma * serial commaSee also
(punctuation)External links
* * English nouns with irregular plurals ----tittle
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(wikipedia tittle)Noun
(en noun)- The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .
- The words "jot" and "tittle " in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
- A tittle' is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two '''tittles'''. Maybe it's a jot and a ' tittle side by side.