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	<description>All about the Ampersand: &#38;</description>
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		<title>Ampersand: meaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ampersand (&#38;), also commonly called an &#8221; &#8216;and&#8217; sign,&#8221; is a logogram representing the conjunction &#8220;and&#8221;. The symbol is a ligature of the letters in et, Latin for &#8220;and&#8221;. The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase &#8220;and per se and&#8221;, meaning &#8220;and by itself is and&#8221;.[1] The Scots and Scottish English name [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ampersand in computing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ampersand is a common symbol for &#8220;and&#8221;, used as the &#8220;address of&#8221; operator in C, the &#8220;reference&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ampersand.co.uk/?p=10</link>
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		<title>Ampersand  in standard generalized markup language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Names</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The main surviving use of the ampersand is in the formal names of businesses, especially firms and partnerships, particularly law firms, architectural firms, and stockbroker firms. When the ampersand forms part of a registered name (e.g. Brownless &#38; Hong ), it should not be replaced with and. The usage of the ampersand is subtly different [...]]]></description>
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