{"id":18155,"date":"2020-02-03T17:20:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T01:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18155"},"modified":"2020-02-02T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T00:28:09","slug":"obelus-and-diesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/02\/03\/obelus-and-diesis\/","title":{"rendered":"obelus and diesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I recently went looking for a copy\/pasteable instance of the \u201cdagger\u201d character (\u2020) that\u2019s sometimes used for the second footnote in a given document. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dagger_(typography)\">Wikipedia article<\/a> about it tells me that the dagger is also known as an <i>obelus<\/i>, apparently related both to the word <i>obelisk<\/i> and to a Greek word referring to a roasting spit.<\/p>\r\n<p>And that Wikipedia page also informs me that the double dagger (\u2021) (sometimes used for the third footnote in a sequence) is also known as a <i>diesis<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The page goes on to provide some interesting material about the history of the obelus character and its uses.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18158,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18155\/revisions\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}