What is the mark that is placed over a lowercase ' i ' called?

Question

What is the mark that is placed over a lowercase ' i ' called?

Answer 1

a dot?

Don't you dot your i's and cross your t's?

Answer 2

hahahahaha tittle!

Answer 3

a dot

Answer 4

t is called a 'tittle', taken from the hebrew 'yodh', the tenth letter of the hebrew alphabet.

See:

http://www.bible-history.com/backd2/jot_...

Answer 5

a tittle. my english teacher randomly told us this. so yea. :D

Answer 6

its hard to pronounce. You may have never heard of it before: dot.

Answer 7

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittle

Answer 8

No doubt - a title, a circle, just a lowercase i used in medieval times and has change over the years, the smallest part one can make............