My 6-year-old was reading a book to himself the other day when he stopped and said, "Mommy, what's this?" I looked where he was pointing, then explained that it was an ampersand [am-per-sand], the symbol for the word and.
The ampersand is often used in names of businesses:
Ben & Jerry's
book or movie titles:
Owen & Mzee
Mr. & Mrs. Jones
Grandma & Grandpa
The ampersand is rarely used in sentences -- except, perhaps, on Facebook statuses and Twitter messages. However, sometimes it is used to indicate the "and" in a listed item's name, distinguishing it from a separating "and":
For lunch, I had an apple, some chips,
a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, and milk.
a peanut butter & jelly sandwich, and milk.
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