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The History of Ampersand and its Functions

Author(s) -

P Pandia Rajammal,

Mr Prabhakaran,

I Year,

A Vadivelan

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

international journal of recent technology and engineering (ijrte)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2277-3878

DOI - 10.35940/ijrte.d1012.1284s419

Subject(s) - alphabet , computer science , linguistics , programming language , natural language processing , history , arithmetic , mathematics , philosophy

This paper discusses the importance and contributions one of the most popular characters or symbols of the English Language, which is now not an official alphabet but once played a significant role among all the English Alphabets. Despite its removal from the list of official alphabets, ‘&’ still continues to be used everywhere from literature, formal and informal languages to even computer programming. This explains why ‘&’ is a potential candidate to be brought back to the list of Alphabets.

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