Also known as the paragraph mark, the pilcrow, for such a humble, rarely used mark, has a surprisingly complex history. Indeed, as Houston writes, the pilcrow is “intertwined with the evolution ...

Ultimately, though, the utility of the paragraph overrode the need for efficiency and became so important as to warrant a new line—prefixed with a pilcrow, of course. ¶ Having attained such a ...

Weirdly enough, the Pilcrow lives on. Microsoft Office products use it as the paragraph character. However, you get it in lieu of newline (i.e. carriage return/line feed) when you hit the enter ...

Today, the manicule is used only rarely in printed works ... to-sender stamps of the United States Postal Service. Like the pilcrow, the diple, or “double” (>), is a truly ancient mark.