S vs Tittle - What's the difference?
s | tittle |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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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 a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a proper noun tittle is
.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}tittle
English
(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.