Surely "&" is the ampersand.
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Stephen Crawshaw
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-----Original Message-----
From: martin allen <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 7:41 AM
Subject: Re: Thick question
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>-----Subject: Re: Thick question/Petit Escargot
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>>In article <[log in to unmask]>, dated Thu, 10 Sep
>>1998 at 09:14:56, Phil Dunlap <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>>There seems to be an 'English vs. American' problem here... What y'all
>>>call the hash sign (#) is referred to here as the pound sign - not just
>>>by programmers but in common usage as a symbol for the pound unit of
>>>weight.
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>And how about the old @ sign?
>Is it a commerical "AT", an ampersand or, as the Independent Newspapers
Poll
>to find a new name for @ suggested a " petit escargot?
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>martin allen
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