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Interesting backstory of harmless "&" (hotword.dictionary.com)
19 points by Wazzup12 5398 days ago
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beaumartinez 5398 days ago
That's nothing compared to Shady Character's article on it[1] (if anything, this feels more like a summary of it).

[1] http://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2011/06/the-ampersand-part-...

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TillE 5398 days ago
This is one of those stories that sounds suspiciously like urban legend bullshit, but upon further investigation, is actually true. Huh.

Most surprisingly, Italian borrowed the word "ampersand" as-is from English. German uses the more sensible "Et-Zeichen" ("et sign/character"), though.

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pan69 5397 days ago
In the Netherlands (Dutch language) we still use "per se" in our day to day speak which means, just like the article points out, "in itself".
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Someone 5397 days ago
I do not think I have ever seen it used with that meaning. I know it as "insistingly". Vandale.nl agrees with that.
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