Open AccessThe History of Ampersand and its Functions
Author(s) -
P Pandia Rajammal,
Malini Prabhakaran,
I Year,
A Vadivelan
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of recent technology and engineering
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.