A few days ago
balwinder s

What is the character ‘&’ the abbreviation of and called?

What is the character ‘&’ the abbreviation of and called?

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A few days ago
Anonymous

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ampersand

it is a short form for the word “and”!

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A few days ago
bh8153
As other answerers have said, it is now called “ampersand”.

But this name is a corruption of the older phrase “and PER SE and”, where PER SE is Latin for “by itself”.

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A few days ago
Bethany
It’s called an ampersand and it means “and”.
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A few days ago
winterlotus
”tera” is correct……..Bethany too.

The character “&” is called ampersand.

It is the abreviation for the conjunction “and”.

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A few days ago
James
and; ampersand
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A few days ago
divinemadness
wow i never knew and was ampersand.. wtf is that? WOW
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