{"id":54,"date":"2006-05-08T16:09:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T15:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/word-of-the-day-tittle\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T16:09:37","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T15:09:37","slug":"word-of-the-day-tittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; tittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>tittle<\/strong>, noun = a small mark in printing or writing, especially a diacritic<\/p>\n<p>Origin: from Latin <em>titulus<\/em> &#8211; label<\/p>\n<p>I came across this word while researching the origin of the dot on the letters i and j, which is known as a tittle. This diacritic was apparently first used to distinguish the letter i from other letters in Latin manuscripts during the 11th century. Originally the tittle was bigger, but was reduced in size gradually until it reached its current dimensions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tittle\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tittle, noun = a small mark in printing or writing, especially a diacritic Origin: from Latin titulus &#8211; label I came across this word while researching the origin of the dot on the letters i and j, which is known as a tittle. This diacritic was apparently first used to distinguish the letter i from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}