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Interesting backstory of harmless "&"
- beaumartinez 15y agoThat's nothing compared to Shady Character's article on it[1] (if anything, this feels more like a summary of it). [1] http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/the-ampersand-part-1-of-2/ http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/the-ampersand-part-...
- TillE 15y agoThis is one of those stories that sounds suspiciously like urban legend bullshit, but upon further investigation, is actually true. Huh. Most surprisingly, Italian borrowed the word "ampersand" as-is from English. German uses the more sensible "Et-Zeichen" ("et sign/character"), though.