We are all aware that the English alphabet contains 26 letters, beginning with A and ending with Z. ... The ampersand symbol originated in Latin, where 'et' denotes 'and.' ...

By the end of the 19th Century, ampersand fell out of the alphabet, having only first appeared in the English language in 1835. Still, it was briefly a member of the alphabet, which is more than ...

Today we just use it for stylistic purposes, but the ampersand has had a long and storied history in English, and was actually frequently included as a 27th letter of the alphabet as recently as ...

At one point "&" was so popular it was included as the 27th letter of the alphabet ... The "&" was first seen in Pompeian graffiti in first century A.D. and rose in popularity until ampersand ...

At 26 letters long, the English alphabet isn’t the most complicated string of symbols and characters to master, even for a five-year-old. You know the alphabet.

THE alphabet the English language uses has 26 letters but according to several videos on social media, in the past it had another letter with the "and" symbol (&), or ampersand, being the 27th.

The ampersand became widely recognized in the early 1800s. It first appeared in the English language in the year 1835. At this point, it was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet, listed ...

A&W Restaurants is only asking for one thing as it turns 100 this year: return the ampersand to the alphabet.The chain, with nearly 1,000 locations worldwide, is inviting people to sign a Change.org ...

Two other symbols already exist in English to produce the "th" sound: thorn (þ) and eth (ð).They were in use until the 15th century, so Daniels wonders why one of these symbols couldn't be ...