The first Saturday of May is designated J Day by marijuana users who organise marches worldwide on this day. 10 things you might not know about the letter J.
Firstly, the reason why a day of cannabis activism is known as J day: because J is a slang term for a joint.
It’s the 10th letter of the Latin alphabet and the fourth least used in the English language after Z, Q and X. That said it’s more common when it comes to personal names. Hence all of the main roles in the comedy show Absolutely Fabulous are played by actresses with names beginning with J: Jennifer, Joanna, June, Julia and Jane.
However, if your name begins with J you can’t do that thing where you spell out your name with element symbols as J doesn’t appear in the Periodic Table. Not in English, anyway. In German, the word for Iodine is Jod, and in German texts J is sometimes used as the symbol for Iodine.
In international licence plate codes, J stands for Japan.
Agent J is a character in the Men in Black films portrayed by Will Smith.
J is the narrator of Jerome K Jerome's novel Three Men in a Boat.
The tenth novel in Sue Grafton's "Alphabet mystery" series, published in 1993 is "J" Is for Judgment.
In the Metric system, J is the symbol for the joule, the SI derived unit for energy.
J has been used as a nickname for various music artists including a member of the K-Pop group STAYC, a solo Korean singer, a Japanese rock musician and American White Zombie guitarist Jay Yuenger. JJJ has been used to refer to Australian radio station Triple J; J. Jonah Jameson, a Marvel comics character; Jaren Jackson Jr., an American basketball player; and Jingjinji, a metropolitan region of China. It was also the production code for the 1971 Doctor Who serial The Dæmons.
In Morse code it’s .--- and in the NATO Phonetic alphabet, J is represented by Juliet.
