Wednesday, October 10, 2012

teensy-weensy and itzy-bitzy


This post shows why I like to read the letter-to-the-editor at the Wall Street Journal. I think

teensy-weensy, 
teeny-weeny, 
itzy-bitzy, 
itsy-bitsy 

all mean “very small” or “tiny” or what a serious physicist would call infinitesimal (so small as to be almost none)—a concept needed in studying calculus.

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