Word: ampersand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ampersand (&) should not be used in formal composition, "is correctly used in commercial statements and the like...
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Sirs: I have lived a half-century without ever knowing that dingus-"&"-was called the ampersand! (TIME, Dec. 14.) Wasn't there a famous & fashionable hotel in the Adirondacks by that name? If so, perhaps some of your readers might know who gave it that name & why. R. H. JOHN...
Famed & fashionable in Franklin County, N. Y. was the old Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...
Would TIME'S editor kindly publish the rule for the use of the ampersand (&) in TIME'S text? Does TIME employ a printed style book and is it available to readers interested in both TIME and the printing...