Baaraatis Anonymous- The Fiftieth! - Page 77

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: bridgeofdreams

Hello, friends 😳

Originally posted by: dev25

Hello Shaimaa 🤗

How are you and how is the college course ?

In the morning, I was thinking about you and it has been a while sine your last visit to our hive and you are here 😊

There is a saying in our part of our world , when we think of a person , remember or talk about and the said person appears and the person is blessed with hundred years

Wishing you hundred years of joyful and pleasant life

Originally posted by: egret

Hello Hi everyone,

Hope all izz well.

Eastners must be 🥱ing, Westners must be busy in your work.😃

Big 🤗 for you all.

Originally posted by: Arshi67

And me, Maate? 🤗

I'm not sleeping, I'm not busy with work ...

Originally posted by: egret

Mi Hijita, 🤗
Long time. Not sleeping not working? So you are middle ground person? 😆
Are you working out to reduce the mayaka pounds? 😉 Did you eat golgappes during desi visit? What other chat you had?