What is one of these called please?

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what is it's proper name please?

cheers

Ampersand

I think it's a printing thing - it's Amper's "and" - but I really do stand to be corrected there.

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An ampersand I think

oh you are all so clever!

thank you

Ah well it must be since we all said it

me again - what are these? [ ]

are they brackets? or are these() brackets?

thanks

They're square brackets, but I bet there's a fancy name for them. T These: {} are curly brackets. Actually don't know what you use them for.

There are probly kicking k brackets too.

lol - i could try including jolly phonics i suppose, i am doing english language coursework after all...

Are these () not called parenthesis?
and these [] brackets?

I stand to be corrected

{} are curly braces (according to DH).

tigerdroveoverthebunnies - curly brackets/braces occur quite a lot in Maths, in Set Theory in particular.

My etymological dictionary says:

ampersand For and per se and, name of the character & as it appears at the end of the alphabet in a primer or hornbook

Now we know