“Hedera is Latin for ivy. Why that is relevant here is not very clear at all, but this little glyph was used back in the day to mark paragraph breaks. Seems like it was probably really hard and annoying to draw, but it looks nice.”
(my blog about punctuation here http://elaine4queen.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/the-hunting-of-the-snark-interrobang-this-and-stuff-about-commas-and-apostrophes/ if you’re interested!)
