& Now - the History of the &

Ah, my favorite grammatical mark - the ampersand. Care to know it's history? Web Designer Depot gives it to you.

From the short piece...

The ampersand can be traced back to the first century AD. It was originally a ligature of the letters E and T (”et” is Latin for and). If you look at the modern ampersand, you’ll likely still be able to see the E and T separately.

The first ampersands looked very much like the separate E and T combined, but as type developed over the next few centuries, it eventually became more stylized and less representative of its origins.