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jay_kyburz
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Do you still count on your fingers?
I'm convinced my kids thought lmno was a single letter for a while.
jstarks
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Supposedly “ampersand” comes from when the alphabet song/rhyme used to end in “and ‘per se’ and”. School kids mushed it together into “ampersand”, and over time it became the name for &.
papandada
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My almost 2-year-old does, and its name is "bah"
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