英语词汇suits you to a t的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

suits you to a “T.” Most dictionaries attribute the expres- sion to the accuracy of the draftsman’s T-square, but this is impossible, according to the O.E.D.—for the phrase was around many years before the T-square got its name. The ex- pression has been used to indicate exactness or perfection since at least the early 17th century and is probably an abbre- viation of the older expression, to a tittle. Tittle or titil was the English name for small strokes or points made in writing the letters of the alphabet, a corruption of the word seen today in the Spanish tilde. Thus to a tittle meant to a dot, precisely, and was used this way more than a century before someone short- ened it to to a T.

词汇	suits you to a t
词源	suits you to a “T.” Most dictionaries attribute the expres- sion to the accuracy of the draftsman’s T-square, but this is impossible, according to the O.E.D.—for the phrase was around many years before the T-square got its name. The ex- pression has been used to indicate exactness or perfection since at least the early 17th century and is probably an abbre- viation of the older expression, to a tittle. Tittle or titil was the English name for small strokes or points made in writing the letters of the alphabet, a corruption of the word seen today in the Spanish tilde. Thus to a tittle meant to a dot, precisely, and was used this way more than a century before someone short- ened it to to a T.
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