Peter T. Daniels scripsit:
> Just as if you're interrupted in writing English, you wouldn't
> leave a t uncrossed?
It happens all the time. Indeed, the idiom "dotting one's i's and crossing
one's t's" *means* "making sure everything is complete"; an uncrossed t is
a metaphor for incompleteness.
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