ampersand

The Secret Marriage of Letters

Have you ever noticed how the letters 'f' and 'i' sometimes merge into a single, elegant character? This is a…

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The Secret Code of Scribes

Before the printing press, scribes used a secret code of symbols and shortcuts to write faster and save precious parchment.…

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The Character with No Sound

Before it was the linchpin of your email address, the @ symbol was a character without a sound, a silent…

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The Character with a Secret History: How a Roman Scribble Became the Ampersand

The ampersand (&) is more than a simple stand-in for "and"; it's a linguistic fossil with a secret history. This…

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