We readers & teachers & artists & writers & dancers & storytellers
usually have a favorite punctuation,
& mine is the ampersand.
It derives from ET or et, Latin for “and.”
It is a logogram & the name is said to derive from
“and per se and the character & by itself is the word and”
See a variety of &&&&&& @
the Wiki entry
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
HAPPY PUNCTUATION DAY!