How do YOU say '&'?

[Acsenray]

@Zeldar

The & is an abbreviation for “et” and depending on the font it can look that way. It is an ampersand. The “et” is Latin for “and.” When reading aloud it would be normal to say “and” unless you were talking about the ampersand or “and sign” itself.

I have heard it mispronounced as “andpersand” by those who ought to know better, but they were talking about the character and not the word it’s a stand-in for.

I believe the word “ampersand” is just a contraction of the phrase “and per se and.”

[Amberlei]

I’d never heard of TG&Y until today, but I would have assumed it would be pronounced “T G and Y”, but I guess I would’ve been wrong. I found two of their commercials on Youtube and their jingle pretty clearly says “T G N Y”. I wonder why on earth they changed “and” to “N”. TG&Y ad 1984--Back to School - YouTube
TG&Y ad Christmas 1984 - YouTube

[Dale_Sams]

This guy also says TG(n)Y at the 10 second mark. Doesn’t sound Oklahoman or Texan either.

[Arrendajo]

I pronounce it “n” with the accent on the first syllable.

[Salem]

I think the OP was using the “&” to show the symbol of what word he/she was referring to and wasn’t asking how to pronounce ampersand. By showing the symbol, the OP may have been trying not to make it a leading question. But of course, I could be wrong.

Anyway, in a list of things, especially things that “go together” like peanut butter and jelly, and in a casual setting, I definitely slide through the “and” and say “peanut butter n jelly.”
“Joe, Pete n Sue are going to the fair.”

But if I’m using “and” to combine two longer phrases, I pronounce it fully. “I was thinking about him and remembering the good times.”

[stui_magpie]

I pronounce it “And”.

Australia if you’re looking at regional differences.

[Idle_Thoughts]

@TriPolar

I pronounce it ampersand period That apostrophe s the way I pronounce all punctuation comma doesn apostrophe t everyone question mark

That reminds me of this (Victor Borge youtube link).

To answer the OPs question: I just say “and”

[Mangetout]

I pronounce it exactly the same as the word ‘and’, unless for some reason I want to emphasise a literal ampersand (dictating a fragment of code, for example), in which case I say ‘ampersand’, or, if I think the person I am speaking to won’t understand that, I say ‘and-sign’.

[Hail_Ants]

In terms of reading it when written (either aloud or to myself) I always simply say ‘and’. Never thought to say anything else.

But am I the only one who constantly mispronounces the name of the symbol itself (&) as an amperstand?

[Zeldar]

@Hail_Ants

In terms of reading it when written (either aloud or to myself) I always simply say ‘and’. Never thought to say anything else.

But am I the only one who constantly mispronounces the name of the symbol itself (&) as an amperstand?

That’s almost as good as “amber lamps.”