Timeline for How did 7 come to be an abbreviation for 'and' in Old English?
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| Mar 1, 2015 at 19:36 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Oct 13, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | user28567 | @davecw Writing 7's is okay. See The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, p.1586: "Plurals with 's: An apostrophe may be used to separate the plural suffix from the base with letters, numbers (notably dates), symbols, abbreviations, and words used metalinguistically: (i) p's and q's, 1960's, &'s, Ph.D.'s, if's and but's (ii) She got four A's and two B's. This practice is less common than it used to be; with dates and abbreviations ending in an upper case letter, the form without the apostrophe is now more usual: in the 1960s, two candidates with Ph.D.s." | |
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| Oct 12, 2014 at 12:44 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Oct 12, 2014 at 10:11 | comment | added | jay_t55 | :-O Say WHAT now? | |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 20:48 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:57 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @Scimonster - I never did figure out why Archy didn't get Mehitabel to operate the shift key for him. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 1:04 | comment | added | Marthaª | If I could give a bounty to a question, I'd give this at least +100. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | Sam Washburn | This was how you typed an ampersand before the invention of the shift key. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | Scimonster | Obviously they couldn't reach the shift key to make it into an ampersand... | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 20:26 | comment | added | Patrick M | Very interesting! Prompted me to ask about the keyboard association of 7 and &. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 19:41 | answer | added | anongoodnurse | timeline score: 116 | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 19:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/520293784488140800 | ||
| Oct 9, 2014 at 18:59 | history | edited | user28567 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 9, 2014 at 18:48 | comment | added | TRiG | The ⁊ symbol is still used in Irish, as an abbreviation for agus ("and"). | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 18:15 | answer | added | fdb | timeline score: 6 | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 17:58 | answer | added | Evan M | timeline score: 53 | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | Given that the numbers in the passage you cite are in Roman numerals, it seems highly doubtful that you are looking at an actual "7". | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | Anonym | I doubt that the numeral 7 has any connection to this 7-shaped character; they simply happen to share a similar representation. | |
| Oct 9, 2014 at 17:47 | history | asked | user28567 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |