27th Letter facts
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The ampersand (&) was the 27th letter of the alphabet as a ligature of the letters 'e' and 't' to form the Latin word 'et' meaning 'and'. So the alphabet would go X,Y,Z and And. So to distinguish it from the rest, children started to say 'and per say and' which later evolved into 'ampersand'.
The ampersand was originally the 27th letter of the English alphabet. The alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se (meaning by itself) and". The phrase became slurred until the symbol was simply known as ampersand (and per se and).
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Originally a letter called the "ampersand" was the 27th letter of the alphabet.
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The ampersand (&) was commonly added to the end of the English alphabet as if it were the 27th letter. As a result, the recitation of the alphabet would end in "X, Y, Z, and per se and". This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand", and the term had entered common English usage by 1837.
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& used to be the 27th letter of the English alphabet.
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The Ampersand sign & originally meant "And per se" and was taught to British children as the 27th letter of the alphabet.
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It took the United States 202 years to pass the 27th Amendment and that it was the result of a letter writing campaign by a college student
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&' (ampersand) used to be the 27th letter in the English alphabet
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The 27th amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified 200 years after it was proposed, because a university student started a letter writing campaign after getting a "C" on a paper he wrote that advocated for the ratification, because the idea was "unrealistic".
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The & ampersand was once the 27th letter of the alphabet.
