{"id":1890,"date":"2011-09-03T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-word-ampersand-came-many-years-later-when\/"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T15:45:39","slug":"the-word-ampersand-came-many-years-later-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-word-ampersand-came-many-years-later-when\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1890 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/2011\/09\/03\/the-word-ampersand-came-many-years-later-when\/attachment\/1891\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"126\" height=\"126\" src=\"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2011\/09\/tumblr_lqxq8dkBqO1qz9b1ho1_250.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The word \u201campersand\u201d came many years later when \u201c&amp;\u201d was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the &amp;. [&hellip;] the students said, \u201cand per se and.\u201d \u201cPer se\u201d means \u201cby itself,\u201d so the students were essentially saying, \u201cX, Y, Z, and by itself and.\u201d Over time, \u201cand per se and\u201d was slurred together into the word we use today: ampersand. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/hotword.dictionary.com\/ampersand\/?t\">How ampersand came from a misunderstanding | The Hot Word | Hot &amp; Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Apparemment vrai aussi pour &ldquo;esperluette&rdquo; selon <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esperluette\">wikipedia<\/a> :\u00a0Il semble que l\u2019esperluette ait \u00e9t\u00e9 consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme la 27e lettre de l\u2019alphabet jusqu\u2019au xixe si\u00e8cle. Selon le Tr\u00e9sor de la langue fran\u00e7aise, le &amp;, derni\u00e8re lettre de l\u2019alphabet, \u00e9tait appel\u00e9 \u00e8te, et les enfants apprenaient \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9cole \u00e9l\u00e9mentaire \u00e0 r\u00e9citer l\u2019alphabet en ajoutant apr\u00e8s \u00ab Z \u00bb, les mots latins \u00ab et, per se, et \u00bb (\u00ab et, en soi, &lsquo;et&rsquo; \u00bb) prononc\u00e9s \u00ab \u00e8te-per se-\u00e8te \u00bb, comme moyen mn\u00e9motechnique. L\u2019appellation du caract\u00e8re \u00ab &amp; \u00bb aurait d\u00e9coul\u00e9 de cette habitude sous la forme de perlu\u00e8te ou esperluette. L\u2019\u00e9tymologie du mot anglais ampersand est tr\u00e8s similaire (and, per se, and). L\u2019\u00e9tymologie occitane est aussi \u00e9voqu\u00e9e, es-per-lou-et, en fran\u00e7ais c\u2019est pour le \u00ab et \u00bb, indiquant que le caract\u00e8re &amp; veut dire \u00ab et \u00bb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201campersand\u201d came many years later when \u201c&amp;\u201d was actually part of the English alphabet. In the early 1800s, school children reciting their ABCs concluded the alphabet with the &amp;. [&hellip;] the students said, \u201cand per se and.\u201d \u201cPer se\u201d means \u201cby itself,\u201d so the students were essentially saying, \u201cX, Y, Z, and by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1892,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions\/1892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paslongtemps.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}