&; looks like special markup code. In HTML and other markups the ampersand colon is used for characters that are otherwise used in the code when you just want to specify the character. I guess you could say it is something like an escape sequence. I don't know if the same thing is happening with bash or the alias command. I guess they are called Character Entity Sets<http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html3/latin1.html>. "&" is how you specify the ampersand in that markup,
J. Lutes
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