Timeline for Origin of the phrase "dotting the i's and crossing the t's"
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| Jan 15, 2023 at 12:26 | vote | accept | Sнаđошƒаӽ | ||
| Sep 21, 2021 at 0:10 | comment | added | DjinTonic | Yes, of course. I think that's how we were all taught. However, I did think it was "cool" to use the continuous "half cross" (or whatever it's called) on a final t when I first saw it. | |
| Sep 20, 2021 at 23:13 | comment | added | BoldBen | Maybe not to complete the sentence before dotting and crossing, but I was certainly taught to complete the word. This meant that each word flowed properly, stopping at each 'i' and 't' would have produced broken words.if you were writing "antidisestablishmentarianism" that meant three 't's to criss and five 'i's to dot. | |
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| Sep 20, 2021 at 13:56 | history | answered | DjinTonic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |