Ampersand

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

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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".

Ampersand in standard generalized markup language

By admin ~ March 20th, 2009. Filed under: programming.

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 example, the HTML encoding for the at symbol (@) so that it will render correctly in a web browser is @, and the encoding for the copyright symbol (©) is ©. The ampersand can be encoded with a choice of & and &#amp;.

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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.

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Ampersand in standard generalized markup language

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