Letter: Call the desert object what it is

I have been amused by the story of the appearance and disappearance of the “monolith” in the desert of southeastern Utah. But I have to take issue with the terms being used for it by The Tribune and other news organizations. As Jim Catano correctly stated in his letter to The Public Forum, a monolith (mono meaning “one”; lith meaning “stone”) does not describe it, nor does obelisk (a stone pillar with square or rectangular cross-section, according to the Oxfor