On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Joel S. Berson<Berson at att.net> wrote: > Unicode (2020) calls it "DAGGER = obelisk, obelus, long cross" As in "Asterix and Obelix". It took me decades to get that one. Mark Mandel ------------------------------------------------------------ The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org