{"id":2998,"date":"2022-06-24T14:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:03:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:03:51","slug":"no-respect-for-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2998","title":{"rendered":"No Respect For J"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few days ago I talked about the letter \u201cJ\u201d being the last letter added to the English Alphabet. The J sits right next to the I in our alphabet and those are the only two letters that have a diacritic dot. (<em>A diacritical dot, or mark is a mark, point, or sign added or attached to a letter or character to distinguish it from another of similar form, to give it a particular phonetic value, to indicate stress, etc., as a cedilla, tilde, circumflex, or macron.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of languages, like Arabic and Hebrew, add specific accents to the letters or characters throughout their alphabet, but the English alphabet has only two letters, i and j. with such a mark.<br>I believe, technically, the dot over a lowercase i and j is called a tittle. Some people think the word comes from a combination of tiny and little.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today the dot is just called a superscript dot. It was added to the letter i in the Middle Ages to distinguish the letter (in written manuscripts) from adjacent vertical strokes in letters like u, m, and n. j is a variant of i that emerged and became a separate letter and it also inherited the superscript dot.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard the phrase, \u201cto dot your i\u2019s and cross your t\u2019s.\u201d That means to be thorough. The phrase \u201cto a T\u201d originated as \u201cto a <em>tittle<\/em>\u201d and means something done exactly right. It originally referred to the tiny detail of a tittle, suggesting that every minor detail was correct.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So once again all those cool phrases like \u201cdot your i\u2019s and cross your t\u2019s\u201d and watch your p\u2019s and q\u2019s\u201d have left out that so important letter J.<br>\u2014 30 \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I talked about the letter \u201cJ\u201d being the last letter added to the English Alphabet. The J sits right next to the I in our alphabet and those are the only two letters that have a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=2998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}