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I'm convinced my kids thought lmno was a single letter for a while.



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 &.


My almost 2-year-old does, and its name is "bah"




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