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Synonyms for the forward slash (/): virgule...
Somewhere I got the idea that a virgule was a comma, just like the French word
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You gotta be kiddin' me! Is that a real word? That sounds like a name for a female arbitration judge.
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>$ US dollar symbol
Here it is just known as the dollar symbol, and I suspect that it is yclept similarly in Australia, Fiji, Grenada, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Liberia, Montserrat, Namibia, Singapore, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Zimbabwe, to name a few. (I'm not sure about the loonie)
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wofa, yeah, virgula means comma in Portuguese, too. Go figger.
Jackie, to quote you back to your own se'f: come here. I got something for you.
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I believe this information on the ampersand is slightly more accurate:
"a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means "(the character) & by itself (is the word) and." The symbol & is derived from the ligature of ET or et, which is the Latin word for "and."
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cool.  et'
formerly known as etaoin...
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"a corruption of and (&) per se and, which literally means "(the character) & by itself (is the word) and."
Not Ampere's "and" ?
Or is that just another Urban Myth (the urb in question here being eighteenth-century Paris) and the symbol has really been around, and so named, for much longer ?
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What's in a name? A lot! et call home... See? 
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^ carot --use as accent mark, and in Math (excel programing) to indicate an exponent. In editing, it could mean "insert"
Would that be caret Helen?
Now, I admit I made an error in Info&Annouce calling the day after Easter "Evacuation Day" when in actual fact it should have been Patriots Day! It's also the day the 26+ mile Boston Marathon is run. Decent weather today, about 60 and cloudy ... runners should do well.
Evacuation Day is March 17! Oooops? !!
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What does Evacuation Day commemorate? Who was evacuated from where?
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