WHY should we care about ampersands?
1. I like to say the word.
2. It's a glyph
3. The sign is aesthetically pleasing to me.
4. It's a ligature of "e" and "t" (that's "et" in Latin; et means "and").
WHY was September 8 chosen as Ampersand Day? Chaz DeSimone, founder of Ampersand Day, chose the date because several of the characters can be cleverly disguised as ampersands, when the right fonts are used:
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