It's the little things

tittle / tit-êl / noun
1. A small jot, such as the dot of an "i", the cross on a "t", the tiny beard (cedilla) on "ç", or the tilde atop Spanish "ñ", as in cañón "canyon".
2. Something minute, incredibly tiny, smaller even than an iota; indeed, the dot on an iota (Greek short "i") is a tittle.
Linguist Robert Beard, editor of excellent alphaDictionary, notes: this noun is unrelated to the verb (