ampersand in A Sentence

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    Biz: What happened to Ampersand?

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    You even need to escape Ampersands within URLs.

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    Ampersands in particular are bedeviling for web writers.

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    This is because the Ampersand(&) operator is for text concatenation.

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    Today I found out where the Ampersand symbol and name came from.

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    If you use an Ampersand as part of an HTML entity, it remains unchanged;

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    Within a code block, Ampersands(&) and angle brackets(< and>) are automatically converted into HTML entities.

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    However, inside Markdown code spans and blocks, angle brackets and Ampersands are always encoded automatically.

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    Further, the Ampersand symbol used to appear at the end of the English alphabet: ….

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    By the mid-19th century, this led to the symbol itself officially appearing in English dictionaries as“Ampersand”.

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    If the citation is in parentheses and you need to use the word"and", use the Ampersand('&') instead.

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    With a code span, Ampersands and angle brackets are encoded as HTML entities automatically, which makes it easy to include example HTML tags.

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    This is similar to modern day texters who commonly use the Ampersand in place of the letters“and” in a word, such as: l& for“land”.

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    Tiro developed a stenographic shorthand system that also included a shorthand version of“et”, which preceded the first known usage of the Ampersand by about 100-200 years.

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    Design: A new site icon + logo(if you look closely, you will see the Ampersand has a heart on top and a brain on the bottom, which I just LOVE!)!

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    This makes it very easy to include example HTML source code using Markdown- just paste it and indent it, and Markdown will handle the hassle of encoding the Ampersands and angle brackets.

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    However, Tiro's symbol was not the combination of“et”, as the Ampersand symbol is, and was different in form than the Ampersand symbol, being closer to a modern day 7 or, more aptly, was a backwards capital gamma:.

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