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You know, I'd think a scintilla is smaller than a soupçon, just from the phrase"not a scintilla of evidence.
But smaller than a soupspoon.
I always envisage a scintilla as being hard and sharp, like a glass splinter, whereas a soupcon sounds much more liquid somehow.
Probably bigger than a soupcon
Italian - spark.
Also the name of an imaginary ultra-compact car. ;->