Footnotes are officially a thing!1

¹ There isn’t really a point² to this post, but, seeing as one of my readers³ expressed their delight that footnotes are a thing, I decided to make it official.
² But there are some points in this post, including periods and the little dot above the ‘i’s.^4
3 The aforementioned reader will not be named.^5
4 The little dots are called ‘tittles’ by the way, which it goes without saying⁶ is a delicious⁷ name.
⁵ Well except by his parents.^8
6 It’s astounding how often the phrase ‘it goes without saying’ is preceded or proceeded by the thing that is ostensibly not needed to be said. Seems somewhat self-defeating.^9
7 That is to say that I find the word pleasing, not that it is literally tasty. One cannot taste a word¹⁰, nor, in this case, the thing to which the word¹¹ refers.^12
8 Of course it is not that they will name him. They have already done it¹³.
⁹ I am waiting to see an occasion where someone genuinely begins, ‘It goes without saying’, and everyone gets it¹⁴.
¹⁰ Except metaphorically, or perhaps as a result of some kind of synaesthesia¹⁵.
¹¹ The word being ‘tittle’.
¹² Although technically one could argue that the point of an ‘i’ can be made with ink¹⁶ and then licked.^17
13 By ‘it’ I mean naming. Sorry if that was ambiguous.
¹⁴ ‘Gets it’ meaning ‘understands’ not ‘tangibly receives’. The ‘it’ here is yet undefined.
¹⁵ Which is one of my favourite words¹⁸.
¹⁶ Or other appropriate substance for leaving accurate shapes on paper¹⁹.
¹⁷ But then aren’t you licking the tittle and the thing on which the tittle is written?^20
18 ‘Synaesthesia’, that is. Keep up.
¹⁹ Or other appropriate object or surface.
²⁰ And aren’t you merely licking the substance that makes up the tittle, not the tittle itself?^21
21 Is it ever possible to truly lick a tittle?^22
22 Big questions here on Oliver Cooper Writes....^23
23 This is the last one²⁴.^25
24 By which I mean ‘the last footnote’.
²⁵ I promise.^26
26 I lied.