The Associated Press Stylebook may caution against its use but the digital era of communication is causing the ampersand, that beautiful textual knot that we use to quickly denote “and” in a sentence, to be put to work more than ever by the general public.
Like all tales from the realm of linguistic history, the background of the ampersand makes for a complicated and highly interesting story; that story is outlined, along with a slew of other information, in this infographic:
