Tironian notes
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Tironian notes are a form of thousands of signs that were formerly used in a system of shorthand dating from the 1st century BCE and named after Tiro, a personal secretary to Marcus Tullius Cicero, wh
A bilingual pay and display sign in Dublin with the Tironian et for the Irish agus ('and').
"Letter of Consolation for Departing Warriors", 9th century
R rotunda substituting for Tironian et in the abbreviation etc. at the end of the nobility title list. 1768
Irish Green postbox at Adare, County Limerick, with the P⁊Ꞇ (P&T) logo
Ampersand
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The ampersand, also known as the and sign, is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the word et.
Tironian notes
…Gaelic). The Tironian character set has limited support in Unicode. The et ⟨⁊⟩ is among the few that are included, because of its continued use as an ampersand in Insular script and then in Gaelic type. A number of other Tironian signs have been assigned to the Private Use Area of Unicode by the Medieval Unicode…
An ampersand written with the vertical stroke merged into the edges
Albertus (typeface) sampler (1936). Two styles of ampersand are shown.