{"id":53814,"date":"2014-12-29T00:09:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=53814"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:09:44","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:09:44","slug":"53814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/53814","title":{"rendered":"And …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tRecently, I noticed a new store in Moscow called Ampersand<\/a>. According to their website, it’s an “Oil & Vinegar Tap House.” They offer\u00a0infused oils and vinegar from around the world on tap, along with other specialty grocery items. But the name seems to stump some passersby. I overheard two people trying to pronounce it and wondering aloud what it could mean.<\/p>\n

Ampersand is a fancy word for a common symbol … the “and” sign.<\/p>\n

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photo, http:\/\/blog.dictionary.com\/ampersand\/<\/p><\/div>\n

And, seems\u00a0like it’s been everywhere lately\u00a0… it popped up on Dictionary.com the other day when I was checking the spelling of some obscure word under a heading titled “What Character Was Removed from the Alphabet?”. Dictionary.com goes on to tell us that the symbol “&” was first used by Roman scribes in the 1st century, when they linked the two letters of “and” in Latin, “et,” in a kind of early shorthand. And the symbol was actually part of the alphabet in early English, coming after the Z at the end of the alphabet (X, Y, Z, &). But when reciting the alphabet, it was confusing to have the word “and” at the end … and … what?<\/p>\n

So students reciting the alphabet used the words “per se” (by itself) to clarify: “X, Y, Z, and per se &.”<\/p>\n

and-per-se-and … ampersand!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, I noticed a new store in Moscow called Ampersand. According to their website, it’s an “Oil & Vinegar Tap House.” They offer\u00a0infused oils and vinegar from around the world on tap, along with other specialty grocery items. But the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}