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The History of the Ampersand
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| Jonny Gibson
Posted on 09/30/2018 8:04:00 AM PDT by Moonman62
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Sunday trivia.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:04:00 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
To: Moonman62
A less incoherent history source or snippit would be helpful.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:09:34 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
To: Moonman62
Good stuff. Anyone know what’s up with “#”?
It was “number symbol” or “pound symbol” and lately, “hashtag.”
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:09:45 AM PDT
by
Rio
To: Moonman62
Please don’t trivialize the Lord’s Day. /jk
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:10:46 AM PDT
by
WKTimpco
To: Rio
It was number symbol or pound symbol and lately, hashtag.Where in the hell did the name "hash tag" come from . . . what a stupid name.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:13:42 AM PDT
by
laweeks
To: Moonman62
...and really good if you do it right:
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:13:52 AM PDT
by
budj
(combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
To: Rio
To: Moonman62
The ampersand is simply a ligature of the letters E and T 'Ampersand come home'.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:24:12 AM PDT
by
Vinnie
To: Reno89519
That was fine & this is not a thread on how to interject rude comments. You can take your comment & store it where illumination can not find it.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:25:38 AM PDT
by
MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
(Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
To: Rio
It first got it’s start as a game called tic tac toe.....
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:25:54 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
To: Moonman62
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:26:43 AM PDT
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Reno89519
Did you try going to the source article? It’s more complete and has illustrations.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:27:19 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: Reno89519
To: Moonman62
I had to look it up. This is an ampersand “&”.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:32:03 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
To: Vinnie
Its interesting that while being a shorthand form for the Latin et meaning and, the ampersand is most often used today as part of the construction & etc. making it literally redundant.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:43:20 AM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Rio
It was number symbol or pound symbol and lately, hashtag.
And, for us Old Folks who still see this - # - as pound, it gives new meaning to the #metoo movement...
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:44:06 AM PDT
by
Paisan
To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
And you rudeness? Wow. Look, my 11 year old could write a more coherent explanation and history about the ampersand. I do give credit that there is no aparant reference to Wikipedia. That does count for something in my book.
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posted on
09/30/2018 8:44:25 AM PDT
by
Reno89519
(No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
To: Paisan
Yeah, oh so smart Alyssa Milano and her crowd didn’t think that through.
In 6th grade, I remember (better memory than widdle Chrissy) getting tired of writing, “I will not talk in class.” 100 times on the blackboard so just used ditto marks. Teacher wasn’t pleased but let it go. I never had to do that punishment again ;) .
Kiddo’s math teacher would use @ instead of X in multiplication equations. Try as we might, kiddo refused to listen to us that it was wrong. It took the next year’s math teacher to correct it.
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posted on
09/30/2018 9:06:40 AM PDT
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: Moonman62
I learned something interesting today. Thanks!
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posted on
09/30/2018 9:19:09 AM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(Trump is fixing the world's problems just to distract us from Russia.)
To: Moonman62
The A & P Grocery Store.
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