> When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß. On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conju

> When the kids recite the letters they don't recite äöüß. On a somehow related side note, I read that "&", which is derived from a ligature of the Latin conjunction "Et" (meaning "and"), was named "ampersand" in English as a mondegreen for "and per se and" as it used to be placed at the end of the English alphabet recitation.