However, his publisher didn’t want to risk its censorship and, therefore, refused to use the ampersand. The symbol was not commonly accepted at the time in formal practices of writing.

Ampersand codes can always be written as an ASCII number (see ASCII chart); however, many commonly used symbols have mnemonic equivalents such as the "lt" and "gt." Note that numeric codes include ...

It used to come after Z and was even part of ... it evolved into the term 'ampersand.' The ampersand symbol originated in Latin, where 'et' denotes 'and.' The character '&' originated as a cursive ...