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300: 271: 289: 259: 1787: 38: 512:, long employed by and proprietary to the Transport for London organisation and its associates, in print and notices, where above a certain point size the dot (and full stop) are diamond shaped, this being among the most distinguishing features of the font. 128:). The quotation uses "jot and tittle" as examples of extremely small graphic details in "the Law", presumably referring to the Hebrew text of the Torah. In English the phrase "jot and tittle" indicates that every small detail has received attention. 556: 193:, and in Matthew 5:18 may refer to Greek diacritics, or, if the reference is to the Hebrew text of the Torah, possibly refers to the pen strokes that distinguish between similar Hebrew letters, e.g., ב ( 501:
in cursive handwriting and some signage. This detail rarely occurs in computers and on the Internet, due to the obscurity of language-specific fonts. In any case, the tittle is always retained in
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conventionally has its dot replaced when a diacritical mark atop the letter, such as a tilde or caron, is placed. The tittle is sometimes retained in some languages. In some
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It is thought that the phrase "to a T" is derived from the word tittle because long before "to a T" became popular, the phrase "to a tittle" was used.
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The Significance of Jesus' Words 'Not One Jot or One Tittle Will Pass from the Law' (Matt. 5:18)
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Oxford Dictionaries Online (US) — Is there a name for the dot above the letters i and j?
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can appear over other letters in various languages. In most languages, the tittle of
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also means "hook". "Keraia" in Matt. 5:18 cannot refer to vowel marks known as
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A number of alphabets use dotted and dotless I, both upper and lower case.
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is omitted when a diacritic is placed in the tittle's usual position (as
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Law and History in Matthew's Gospel: A Redactional Study of Mt. 5:17–48
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formerly used dotless i in lowercase Irish text to better distinguish
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is not smaller than the other Greek letters. See John P. Meier,
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A further complication is the convention of removing the dot from
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Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon
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Günther Schwarz, "ἰῶτα ἓν ἢ μία κεραία (Matthäus 5 18)",
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In most Latin-based orthographies, the lowercase letter
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are undotted to avoid confusion with tone-marked vowels
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Diacritical mark, the dot element of the letters i and j
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I with acute and hard dot in Lithuanian and Vietnamese
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Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
668:"Orthographic Diacritics and Multilingual Computing" 96:), but not when the diacritic appears elsewhere (as 1765: 1697: 1650: 1604: 1544: 1427: 1367: 1325: 1302: 1270: 1230: 1219: 1164: 1118: 1070: 1022: 954: 945: 895: 832: 638:Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 459:in the 17th century, the tittle is preserved atop 455:sometimes retains a tittle even when accented. In 326:. This practice has carried over to several other 281:with a tittle in the Middle Vietnamese dictionary 116:is rarely used. One notable occurrence is in the 485:. In modern Vietnamese, a tittle can be seen in 1747:Intellectual property protection of typefaces 810: 740:Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum 482:Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum 8: 1289: 225:‎, 'short line'). In printing modern 1227: 951: 817: 803: 795: 758:Where did the phrase "to the T" come from? 597:See David N. Bivin and Joshua N. Tilton, " 508:A particular and unique variant is in the 399:to avoid confusion of the tittle with the 377:, always includes the tittle on lowercase 169:was a medieval innovation. Alternatively, 1773:Punctuation and other typographic symbols 706:when adding a diacritic over them, as in 222: 673:Language Problems and Language Planning 654:Grammatical analysis of Syriac Peshitta 538: 345:In some of the Dene languages of the 7: 625:Law and History in Matthew's Gospel 295:with a tittle on Vietnamese signage 189:is related). "Keraia" is a hook or 139:" and "tittle" in Matthew 5:18 are 14: 686:John Benjamins Publishing Company 1786: 1785: 656:. 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Index

Tittle (surname)
title
tilde

Liberation Serif
red
lowercase
diacritic dots
i
j
í
ĵ
į
ɉ
King James Bible
Matthew 5:18
KJV
Greek
jot
keraia
Greek
Iota
Greek alphabet
iota subscript
yodh
Hebrew
Aramaic alphabets
serif
Bet
Kaph

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