Whit vs Tittle - What's the difference?

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Whit is a related term of tittle.

As a noun whit

is the season of whitsuntide.

As a proper noun tittle is

whit

English

Noun

(en noun)

The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit .

* 1602 : (William Shakespeare), , act V scene 2

Not a whit .

* 1917 , Incident by

Synonyms

* (smallest part imaginable) bit, iota, jot, scrap * See also .

Anagrams

* with English terms with homophones ----

tittle

English

(wikipedia tittle)

Noun

(en noun)

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'):

The foure pricks or tittles' are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked ' tittle .

* 1965 , P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible :

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.

* 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 :

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.

Synonyms

* See also .