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Jot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verb: To write a short note, comment or reminder. Often used with an adjective like “down”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “The Luddite still found it easier to write a note by hand than to use his smart phone.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation click here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The photo is of a Haiku I jotted down <\/strong>to my friend Bob many years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jot is a Word Seldom Seen<\/strong> that used to be quite common. Now it is used less and less frequently because jotting things down is less and less frequent. Jotting is being replace by tiny keyboards, even tinier cameras and speech recognition software. What a wonderful world we live in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jot Verb: To write a short note, comment or reminder. Often used with an adjective like “down” Example: “The Luddite still found it easier to write a note by hand than to use his smart phone.” Pronunciation click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1038,408],"tags":[871,137,409],"class_list":["post-20585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haiku","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-haiku","tag-postcards","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2824-scaled.jpeg?fit=2225%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5m1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20587,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20585\/revisions\/20587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}