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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
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English and Latin phrase, " and per se and," of which there are many
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dialect forms, as " ampussyand," or " amperseand ")  , the name of the sign & or &, which is a
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combination of the letters e, t, of the
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Lat. et= and . The sign is now usually called "
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short and." In old-fashioned primers and nursery books the name and sign were always added at the end of the
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alphabet .

End of Article: AMPERSAND (a corruption of the mixed English and Latin phrase, " and per se and," of which there are many dialect forms, as " ampussyand," or " amperseand ")
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