Where did the symbol “&” come from? And, while we’re at it, why is it called an “ampersand ... after “A” and “I” but not after other letters used as words, such as “B ...

To usher the day here are five cool facts about the symbol: EE Cummings 1 The origin story: In the 1800s in Britain, the English alphabet ended with the letters X, Y, Z and &.This made the ...

The written forms of Latin had scores of contractions and other marks for abbreviation ... except for the ampersand. (And much less prominently, the “Rx” symbol we now take to signify ...

Unfortunately, XML views the ampersand differently than it does other characters ... it expects to find a symbol name and a semicolon following it. The symbol name provides a symbolic reference ...