AJ on Instagram: "The “&” symbol isn’t just shorthand. It’s a 2,000-year-old ligature with a name: ampersand. ✍️🔤 It began as a mashup of the Latin word “et”, meaning “and.” Scribes wrote the “e” and “t” so closely they fused — forming the elegant curl we now call “&”. But the name “ampersand”? That came from schoolchildren. In the 1800s, “&” was taught as the 27th letter of the alphabet. Kids would recite: “X, Y, Z, and per se and” — meaning “and, by itself, ‘and’.” Over time, “and per se and”
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AJ on Instagram: "The “&” symbol isn’t just shorthand. It’s a 2,000-year-old ligature with a name: ampersand. ✍️🔤 It began as a mashup of the Latin word “et”, meaning “and.” Scribes wrote the “e” and “t” so closely they fused — forming the elegant curl we now call “&”. But the name “ampersand”? That came from schoolchildren. In the 1800s, “&” was taught as the 27th letter of the alphabet. Kids would recite: “X, Y, Z, and per se and” — meaning “and, by itself, ‘and’.” Over time, “and per se and”
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