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It’s just an unnecessary, extravagant ligature of the letters "et", from 9th century Latin.



So? Most symbols are 'unnecessary'. I'm pretty sure we could get away without ^ | # @ ` { } [ and ] for example. Hell Ancient Greek didn't even have spaces.




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