{"id":136,"date":"2008-08-08T14:11:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-08-08T14:11:08","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T21:11:08","slug":"thoughts-on-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on usage."},"content":{"rendered":"

Just a note. When I first learned this DTP (graphic design) stuff in the mid-80\u2019s \u2013 there was no one to teach it, so we all learned by flying by the seat of our pants.<\/p>\n

To this end, I did some serious study of typography, scouring the local library for any and all books about the subject.<\/p>\n

One thing came up about the ampersand (BTW I agree with you about the lovliness [sic<\/em>] of the ligature). It is not strictly a replacement for \u201cand.\u201d According to my research, there is a \u201cpossessive\u201d quality to the ampersand, and to simply replace \u201cand\u201d with an amperand [sic<\/em>] is not correct in all cases.<\/p>\n

For example, \u201cSanford & Son\u201d is a correct usage, but \u201cMoving & Storage\u201d is not.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if this matters to you, you may just be in it for the typography, but I always thought it was an interesting \u201cfactoid.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve never heard this before. Yes, I know I am the curator of the ampersand blog, but some of the granular details of proper ampersand usage are beyond me. Thoughts? Corrections? Please leave a comment or email if you have something to add. I want to hear from the real grammar folks on this one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just a note. When I first learned this DTP (graphic design) stuff in the mid-80\u2019s \u2013 there was no one to teach it, so we all learned by flying by the seat of our pants. To this end, I did some serious study of typography, scouring the local library for any and all books about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26],"tags":[46,233,573],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-links","category-writing-about-ampersands","tag-ampersand","tag-grammar","tag-usage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ampersand.gosedesign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}