ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 14 hours agoWhat is the most obscure fact you know?message-squaremessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down10
arrow-up173arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most obscure fact you know?ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 14 hours agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareJonnyprophet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·7 hours ago& This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z. That’s how it got its name. People would say “X,Y,Z, and, per se, And”. (And “sort of” an and). Thus, “And per se And” became Ampersand.
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This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z.
That’s how it got its name. People would say “X,Y,Z, and, per se, And”. (And “sort of” an and). Thus, “And per se And” became Ampersand.