Jim Allan scripsit: > See http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/theampersand.html for a short > history of the ampersand and some of its variations in modern computer > fonts.
Unfortunately the explanation of the name "ampersand" given there is exactly backwards: it is not "& per se and", but "and per se &". Anglophones used to recite the alphabet by saying "... x, y, z, and per se [by itself] &", pronounced of course "and per se and" and later "ampersand". > Check common fonts like Trebuchet MS, Berkeley Book, Goudy Sans, Korinna > and Univers for recognizable _Et_ ampersands. I hand-write & by making a tall lower-case epsilon glyph and then drawing a solidus over it. -- I am expressing my opinion. When my John Cowan honorable and gallant friend is called, [EMAIL PROTECTED] he will express his opinion. This is http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the process which we call Debate. --Winston Churchill
