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From: tcan@NOSPAM.itis.com (Prospero)
Subject: Re: What's figlet?
Date: 1997/12/19
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In article <67aos6$r1h$1@usenet11.supernews.com>, "aardvarko" <*REMOVE
ME*aardvarko@geocities.com> wrote:

> >An "equation character" [English name?]: =
> 
> Our over-simplified name for it is... [drumroll please] an "equals sign"

There may not be a name for it. The word for & is 'ampersand'. The reason
being that school children were once taught that the alphabet ended with
this character and, when recited the alphabet, ended it with, "And, per
se, and".

Might be apocryphal, but it makes a good bit of trivia =)
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