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10 points to the first person who can tell me what this symbol is called?

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  1. ampersand?


  2. That symbol is the Ampersand,

    &.

    It means "and", usually placed between two words.

  3. And

  4. ampersand

  5. An ampersand (&), also commonly called an " 'and' sign," is a logogram representing the conjunction "and". The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, Latin for "and."The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and [the symbol which] by itself [is] and".[1] The Scots and Scottish English name for & is epershand, derived from "et per se and", with the same meaning. This formulation is due to the fact that in schools, when reciting the Alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A," "I," "&" and, at one point, "O") was preceded by the Latin expression "per se" (Latin for "by itself"). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign, pronounced "and". Thus the end of the recitation would be: "X, Y, Z and per se and." This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837. [2] There was a common misconception that the word was derived from the name of a certain inventor named Linus Amper, hence the name "Amper's and."

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  6. the and symbol

  7. ampersand or and

  8. it means and! &

  9. Its an ampersand

    means and

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