Baaraatis Anonymous- The Fiftieth! - Page 76

Originally posted by: sudhareddy

Hi everyone 🤗

Originally posted by: cineraria

Found something really interesting.

The original English Alphabet.

The 27-letter alphabet from the book The Dixie Primer, for the little folks, 1863.

The word ampersand (&) is a corruption of "and per se and". What does it mean? Earlier the & symbol was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Yes, they used to say "A to ampersand" instead of "A to Z". It'd be awkward to recite the alphabet as "... X Y Z &" (and what?), so schoolchildren reciting the alphabet would end it with "& per se and", meaning the symbol &, by itself, is the word "and".
Where did the symbol & come from? It's a corruption of "et", the Latin word for "and". That explains why sometimes "etc." is written as "&c".

Originally posted by: Heavens_Flower

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Originally posted by: cineraria

Sudha behen the newest Red Rocker!!!

Congratulations. I have no idea how 5000 posts are made. Maybe I'll have once I have reached the height of all red greats. 😆

Originally posted by: rulama

Sudha...

Congrats on turning red...

Originally posted by: cineraria

Found something really interesting.

The original English Alphabet.

The 27-letter alphabet from the book The Dixie Primer, for the little folks, 1863.

The word ampersand (&) is a corruption of "and per se and". What does it mean? Earlier the & symbol was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Yes, they used to say "A to ampersand" instead of "A to Z". It'd be awkward to recite the alphabet as "... X Y Z &" (and what?), so schoolchildren reciting the alphabet would end it with "& per se and", meaning the symbol &, by itself, is the word "and".
Where did the symbol & come from? It's a corruption of "et", the Latin word for "and". That explains why sometimes "etc." is written as "&c".