Show how it started hal by JEA JEAN NEWTON JOTTING IT DOWN T THIS HIS expression la Is commonly of something which la Is to ae DO wit arll ten where the implication to Is that it will take no time nor effort that th the writing amounts to no more mare than a scratch or a jot we all know that tha there Is a type of person who arbo not very fond d of work himself has the habit habat ot of minimizing anything that thai he calill ot other her people to do accordingly he might request some one to just jot down a dozen pages or more I 1 that however would not be in keeping with the meaning or the origin of the ta phrase for the origin of jotting it down we must turn simply t to the word jot derived from the greek iota or IL 1 I it means a tittle thi the dot over the III 1 I or a mark over a letter to distinguish pronunciation and its significance riffi ance cance extends extend to anything fin of slight value or proportions 1 literally jot down would mean to make a mark andt la Is in 6 the santo of making just a few marks that we today refer to writing something down as jotting it down copyright |