The pilcrow. The derivation of its name is as complex as its form. It originally comes from the Greek paragraphos(para, “beside” and graphein, “to write ...

The following is the second of three excerpts from Keith Houston’s new book, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. As the symbol’s appearance ...

In his new book, “Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks,” Keith Houston reveals the stories behind esoteric punctuation marks, from the pilcrow (¶) to ...

This is a pilcrow: ¶. It is a piece of typographical arcana, a paragraph mark, a second cousin of the cedilla and the umlaut, and it is, as Adam Mars-Jones rightly observes, 'hard to track down on the ...

Much of it is ancient history (BACKWHENSENTENCESINDEEDENTIREDOCUMENTSHADNOSPACES), but it's interesting enough to mention the rise and rise of "@". Weirdly enough ...