ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 天前What is the most obscure fact you know?message-squaremessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down11
arrow-up1130arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most obscure fact you know?ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 10 天前message-square158linkfedilink
minus-squareJonnyprophet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·9 天前& This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z. That’s how it got its name. People would say “X,Y,Z, and, per se, And”. (And “sort of” an and). Thus, “And per se And” became Ampersand.
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 天前I love the corruption of the saying to give us the name. Reminds me of “Goodbye” being a corruption of “God be with ye”.
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This symbol, the ampersand, used to have equal status with letters of the alphabet and was stuck at the end after Z.
That’s how it got its name. People would say “X,Y,Z, and, per se, And”. (And “sort of” an and). Thus, “And per se And” became Ampersand.
per se means on its own
And in Finnish ”perse” means ass
nice
Nice perse
I love the corruption of the saying to give us the name. Reminds me of “Goodbye” being a corruption of “God be with ye”.