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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 882 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMPERSAND (a corruption of the mixed See also:English and Latin phrase, " and per se and," of which there are many See also:dialect forms, as " ampussyand," or " amperseand ")  , the name of the sign & or &, which is a See also:combination of the letters e, t, of the See also:Lat. et= and . The sign is now usually called " See also:short and." In old-fashioned primers and nursery books the name and sign were always added at the end of the See also:alphabet .

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