Fwd: pilcrow: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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From: Dictionary.com <doctor@dictionary.com>
Date: 2013/12/1
Subject: pilcrow: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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	Word of the Day for Sunday, December 1, 2013 pilcrow \PIL-kroh\, noun: a paragraph mark. Take the trouble to look it up and in most cases the humble pilcrow warrants only a few lines, dismissed briskly as a "paragraph mark" that is "only important when brevity is important." -- Keith Houston, Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks, 2013 I'm more like a specialized piece of punctuation, a cedilla, umlaut or pilcrow, hard to track down on the keyboard of a computer or typewriter. -- Adam Mars-Jones, Pilcrow, 2008 Pilcrow arose in the 1400s, possibly from the Old French paragrafe meaning "paragraph." Read the full entry | See synonyms | Comment on today's word | Suggest tomorrow's word Yesterday's word | Previous words | Help Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom? Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges Check out the Quote of the Day ›› Why Are Sales Days Called Black Friday? Today, a number of retail chains are trying to have Christmas in July by offering massive sales. The media has labeled this a second Black Friday, referring to the Friday after Thanksgiving when stores traditionally offer deep discounts. When you stop to think about it, the use of black to describe a massive shopping day... Read more ›› Dictionary.com Word of the Day You are subscribed to the Word of the Day as: hectorpinillos@gmail.com Subscriber since: June 03, 2013 Unsubscribe from the Word of the Day To subscribe to the Word of the Day by email, please send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com ©2013 by Dictionary.com, LLC. 555 12th Street Suite 500 Oakland CA 94607 Subscriptions to the Word of the Day can also be managed online   Tell a friend about the Word of the Day!

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