{"id":3278,"date":"2017-11-04T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tazi.com.au\/blog\/?p=3278"},"modified":"2019-05-06T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T04:42:15","slug":"do-you-know-the-history-of-the-ampersand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/creative\/do-you-know-the-history-of-the-ampersand\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know the history of the ampersand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"markup--quote markup--p-quote is-other\" data-creator-ids=\"anon\">I do love the ampersand and am amazed to find out that the &amp; is simply a ligature of the letters <strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">E<\/strong> and <strong class=\"markup--strong markup--p-strong\">T<\/strong> (<em class=\"markup--em markup--p-em\">et<\/em> being the latin word for and). Now&nbsp;officially classified as punctuation, it was once the 27th letter in the English alphabet, existing as the graphical representation of the word \u2018and\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ampersand-aqua.png\" alt=\"Tazi ampersand\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ampersand-aqua.png 800w, https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ampersand-aqua-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/ampersand-aqua-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This article has a lot of information about the history of the ampersand, why it is called &#8216;ampersand&#8217; and its usage: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/black-lion-banner\/the-history-of-the-ampersand-c81839171940\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/medium.com\/black-lion-banner\/the-history-of-the-ampersand-c81839171940<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-images-1.medium.com\/max\/800\/1*hwvKdFt2-Dv3jKdUJhNOow.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"309\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do love the ampersand and am amazed to find out that the &amp; is simply a ligature of the letters E and T (et being the latin word for and). Now&nbsp;officially classified as punctuation, it was once the 27th letter in the English alphabet, existing as the graphical representation of the word \u2018and\u2019. This&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/creative\/do-you-know-the-history-of-the-ampersand\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[107,77],"class_list":["post-3278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative","category-typography","tag-ampersand","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3278"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3278\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazi.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}