Taxacom: Fwd: Two or more authors: language

[Timothy Dickinson]

Thank you, Fred! The observation re the origin of the ampersand is all I need to justify my use of ampersands in author citations. I can live with spelling out ?et al.? In bibliographic citations, but as for giving the authorities for plant names, ampersands any day.

Writing out ?et? in this day and age seems excessively fussy and unnecessary. If our predecessors had the wit to coin a glyph, let?s use it!

Cheers, ?-tad.


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> On Aug 6, 2025, at 08:50, Frederick W. Schueler <bckcdb at istar.ca> wrote:
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> ?On 8/6/2025 8:21 AM, Thomas Pape via Taxacom wrote:
>> The zoo-Code uses "&" in all Examples and Recommendations where situations with only two authors of a scientific name occur.
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> * ...and "&" "originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et" - wikipedia.
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