Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for September 03, 2023

In some fonts it can be seen (in others, not so much) that “&” consists of the combined letters “et”, the Latin for “and”. For one example, look up Trebuchet MS in Windows Character Map.

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Tomorrow & the day after that!

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But does she pronounce it “ampersand” when speaking to distinguish it?

Now explain how Greeks had one letter, φ we call it phi, that sounds like f & Romans had an f, but in translation it ended up ph? Sh became s when it came through Greek because they didn’t have sh. Who did Greek go through on it’s way to Roman, who didn’t have an f? I’ll bet 60/40 Etruscans vs Macedon.

Good to know…..

Now if you could only convince people that led is the past tense of lead.

Why do we need it? For programs with limited text space.

I use the ampersand all the time!

You tell her, Clarice.