What is the name of the horizontal line on a letter t?

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What is the name of the horizontal line on a letter t?

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Gnomon
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'Adding the jots and tittles' is an old phrase meaning to put the final touches to a document, literally dotting the i's and putting cross bars on the t's.

Apr 16 2003, 8:17 AM

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kerry8888
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this site refers to it as a tittle - just as the dot on the letter i

http://www.clarion-call.org/articles/art6.htm

while most other sites refer to it simply as a cross stroke or crossbar.....

Apr 16 2003, 5:57 AM

What is the name of the horizontal line on a letter t?

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