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Stone jotted down a pilcrow next to the line and began again.

He eventually gave his name to a “sexually precocious schoolboy” in the 2008 novel Pilcrow.

But while National Punctuation Day, Sept. 24, may be an occasion to pour one out for the pilcrow, that’s not the case for the period.

The pilcrow: The character that looks like a fancy backward capital P is called the pilcrow; it's used to mark the break between paragraphs.

Another is to make your own punctuation cocktails, offered during London Design Week this year: The Type Ice Tea, Ampersand Fizz and Pilcrow Fashioned.