tittle thyiiijjjiiijjj jijijijijijiiiiijjjjjiiiiiiiiijijijjjjjjjj 121125 ... thyiiijjjiiijjj im tittle-lated 121125 ... epitome of incomprehensibility One of my students last year spelled title this way on an exam. All the TAs were marking together and I pointed this out, saying, "What's it supposed to MEAN? A small breast?" A small singular breast, too. I was running on very little sleep at the time. 121126 ... Doar now that you blathed this, my definition was going to be "a small laugh at an inappropriate time, such a a social gathering, where the debutante tittled..." hmmm....small breast though....nah... Fawlkes: So do you sir consider that you have gained far too much when you leveraged your dock holding against the new currency standard now being imposed upon the French? Sophie: Oh my....tittle. Fawlkes: What was that? ... 121126 ... e_o_i is bored I see! Tittle = little titter. Twitter also sounds like titter, which, added to the avian meaning, makes the site's name hard to take seriously. And why don't we take birds seriously? My uncle, who went to the Galapagos islands (insert jealousy here) just HAD to caption his pictures of boobies - the bird kind. Evidently it's not only the (sleep-deprived) chicks of my family who titter about Inherently Funny Words. Also: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InherentlyFunnyWords 121206 what's it to you? who go blather from