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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Just stumbled across this explanation of a possible eggcorn in wikipedia, though there’s no citation given for it:
“There was a common misconception that the word was derived from the name of a certain inventor named Linus Amper, hence the name “Amper’s and”.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
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Sounds like a folk etymology.
Here’s one etymological site’s better explanation:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=ampersand
Although I suppose “Amper’s and” could be an eggcorn if someone actually wrote it like that.
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