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In Tagalog, the word at means 'and', so the symbol is used like an ampersand in colloquial writing such as text messages (e.g. magluto @ kumain, 'cook and eat'). In Thai, it is commonly called at, as in English. In Turkish, it is commonly called et, a variant pronunciation of English at. [citation needed]
The ampersand can be used to indicate that the "and" in a listed item is a part of the item's name and not a separator (e.g. "Rock, pop, rhythm & blues and hip hop"). [citation needed] The ampersand may still be used as an abbreviation for "and" in informal writing regardless of how "and" is used.
The + sign is a simplification of the Latin: et (comparable to the evolution of the ampersand &). [7] The − may be derived from a macron ̄ written over m when used to indicate subtraction; or it may come from a shorthand version of the letter m itself. [8] From Johannes Widmann's book on "handy and pretty arithmetic for all merchants" [9] [10]
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What I am mystified by is the appearance of the word “asperand” for the commercial at. It strikes me as an accidental mispronunciation of “ampersand” by a person who believed that the “ampersand” was the @ and not the &. (You will see people call the @ an “ampersand” from time to time.)
Ampersand's Entertainment Guide, originally Ampersand, a college magazine supplement; Ampersand, a student newspaper at Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University; Ampersand, an online magazine at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism; The Ampersand, Eton College school magazine
Y: The Last Man takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where a mysterious cataclysmic event simultaneously killed every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one man – Yorick Brown (Ben Schnetzer) – and his male pet monkey Ampersand.