By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist
It was around for quite some time.
Then—somewhere in the mid-1800s, it disappeared.
What disappeared? Well it was the ampersand–&–and it disappeared from the alphabet.
The ampersand had quite happily settled in right after Z. Proudly it held its place in the English alphabet, standing upright and curvaceous.