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

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You're typing away on an important work document when, suddenly, every time you press the Enter key, a bizarre, backward-facing "P ...