ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoWhat is the most obscure fact you know?message-squaremessage-square165linkfedilinkarrow-up1136arrow-down10
arrow-up1136arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most obscure fact you know?ZDawg@lemmy.world to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square165linkfedilink
minus-squareJonnyprophet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up46·3 months 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.
minus-squarelepinkainen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·3 months agoAnd in Finnish ”perse” means ass
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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