Ampersand

Night Clubs

Ampersand makes a cool name for a night club and there are several in the UK in cities including London, Bristol and Mancherster.

Symbol

The ampersand symbol is a ligature combination of the cursive letters "e" and "t", invented in 63 BC by Marcus Tirus as shorthand for the Latin word for "and", "et".

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Ampersand in computing

Friday, March 20th, 2009

Ampersand is a common symbol for “and”, used as the “address of” operator in C, the “reference” operator in C++ and a bitwise AND operator in several programming languages. UNIX shells use the character to indicate that a task should be run in the background. That is, the process started by the command can continue [...]

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Ampersand in standard generalized markup language

Friday, March 20th, 2009

In SGML (standard generalized markup language) and its descendants, such as HTML (hypertext markup language) and XML (extensible markup language), the ampersand is used to begin the encoding that represents a special character (i.e., a character that is not included in the limited standard character set), and such encoding is terminated with a semicolon. For [...]

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Movie Titles

The ampersand is also used for book and movie titles, such as Grahame & The Chef , as well, and in some other proper names. In these cases, & is interchangeable with the word and; the distinction between them is mostly aesthetic. However, in film credits for story, screenplay, etc., & indicates a closer collaboration than and.