In the passage above quoted I have restored the ampersands and capitals of Boswell's manuscript.
Examplesofampersand
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All abbreviations and incomplete words have been expanded; theampersandhas been treated as a ligature.
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Admittedly, one is theampersandon the title page.
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However, the majority of the original releases do not use ampersands.
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It is commonly known by the acronym (theampersandis used and retained in the acronym for clarity).
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Various forms of theampersandreplaced the word and.
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This code block contains ornamental leaves, punctuation, and ampersands, quilt squares, and checkerboard patterns.
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The cover-logo trademark uses and while the copyrighted title noted in the postal indicia uses anampersand.
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Ampersandalso brought claims for unfair competition, intentional interference with prospective economic advantage and contract, and negligent interference with prospective economic advantage and contract.
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This creates what is known as theampersandproblem.
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A doubleampersandis needed in order to display a realampersand.
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The bar inampersandis only available in book roman font.
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A slab may contain three digits (with at sign, comma, space,ampersand, point, and minus treated as digits) or two alphabetic characters.
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In the list of references, anampersandprecedes the last author's name when there is more than one author.
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Note that theampersandis a ligature of et.
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And a butterfly icon replacing anampersand?
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