102: & (ampersand) Mar 20, 2015

Hello everyone, & have a happy Friday. The word today is 'ampersand'. The symbol of this word is the combination of the shapes of the letters 'e' and 't' from the Latin word for 'and', 'et'. Like the symbol, the word itself comes from a synthesis of sorts, the phrase, "and per se and", meaning that it is 'and', nothing more.