# How do you make ampersands?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 17, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-ampersands/195691 "2003-08-17T01:34:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-ampersands/195691/21 "2003-08-18T03:55:34Z")

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Me-Too’ing the backwards 3 with the vertical slash.

I’ve tried the “&” ampersands, but they end up squished and horribly deformed.

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**Author:** ![caveman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caveman/32/7242_2.png) [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-ampersands/195691/22 "2003-08-18T04:47:26Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \*  
> \*\*I start at the top of the aforementioned backward three, zig back, forth, and back (in other words make the top lobe and half the bottom lobe); then I loop up and back down.
> 
> ```auto
> 
> /\
> ||
> ||
> ||
> --++---
> \||__
> __/\_/
> \
> 
> ```
> 
> Yes, I’m weird. I accept this about myself. \*\*

Are you sure the coupling of two _words_ is what you had in mind? :dubious: 😃

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**Author:** ![Freiheit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e8c25b/32.png) [@Freiheit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freiheit)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-ampersands/195691/23 "2003-08-19T00:27:42Z")

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Thanks, guys. I wasn’t actually expecting _replies!_ I think lately I’ve been making mine a backward 3/curvy E with an interrupted line.

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**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-make-ampersands/195691/24 "2003-08-19T12:22:51Z")

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When a mommy ampersand and a daddy ampersand love each other _very much_, daddy rents some Punctuation Porn, and…

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