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Ampersand for the dummies

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008, by moose

Ask H&FJ | Hoefler & Frere-Jones:
As for the word “ampersand,” folk etymologies abound. The likeliest account, offered by the OED, is explained by early alphabet primers in which the symbol was listed after X, Y, Z as “&: per se, and.” Meaning “&: in itself, ‘and’”, and inevitably pronounced as “and per se and”, it’s [...]

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