ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agoWhat is the most obscure fact you know?message-squaremessage-square138linkfedilinkarrow-up146arrow-down11
arrow-up145arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most obscure fact you know?ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 month agomessage-square138linkfedilink
minus-squareJonnyprophet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month ago& 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.
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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