Why your Word document keeps adding that weird 'P' symbol when you hit enter

If you're typing in a word processor and suddenly notice a symbol you don't recognize, you've probably enabled an often ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Origin of the Pilcrow, aka the Strange Paragraph Symbol

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 Guardian

A true character study

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 ...
The New Yorker

The Ancient Roots of Punctuation

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 ...