Tag: Just for fun

Some words just sound naughty, even if they aren’t. Take “jot” and “tittle”. They always make me think of someone snickering, “Yeah, I’d like to jot her tittle . . . .”

But no, they’re not only squeaky clean (well, mostly, there’s a naughty definition of “jot” you’ll have to look up yourself), they’re also quite interesting.

Anyway, let’s look at the old-school definition. In Matthew 5:18, Jesus said, “For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.”

So what is a “jot”? It means the smallest part of the alphabet, the least letter, the smallest bit of writing. So if you say you’re jotting something down, you ain’t writing a dissertation, honey. If you want to insult someone and leave them confused at the same time, just say, “That don’t make a jot of sense.” It is related to the word “iota”, which we’re all familiar with.

A “tittle” is a dot, stroke or point in writing, like the dot over an i or a j, or the cross (no pun intended) over a t.

So there ya go.

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I’m going to stick an earworm into your ear, and once it’s in, it will be the devil to get out. Here goes: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. You can hear the music in your head now, can’t you? Dum-dee-dee-doo-dah . . . . You can thank me later.

While it is one of the longest words in the English language, it certainly isn’t the longest. There are a lot of contenders for that, such as pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, which is a type of lung disease caused by inhaling ash and dust. And that, my friends, is why I decided not to go into medicine.

(Info sourced from grammerly.com)

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