The first known ampersand was scrawled on a wall in 1st-century Pompeii by an anonymous graffiti artist practicing his Roman cursive. It is related, but not identical to, a rival mark created ...

The symbol ‘&’, known as the ampersand, was once considered a letter in the English alphabet before it was removed. Originating in Pompeii in the first century CE, it came from the Latin ‘et ...

In fact, the name “ampersand” was created by, of all people, children. Until the mid-1800s, most British and American students recited an alphabet not of 26 characters, but of 27.

Tomorrow is Ampersand Day, and so we’ve curated a few cool facts and fun things to do around this important symbol in literature that is referred to as the 27th letter of the alphabet ...

That, however, has changed. “Now it’s everywhere,” Goetz says of the plus sign. “It’s literally all over the place.” Most recently, the plus sign has become a sigil in the streaming ...