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Re:Walt Whitman's Letter for a Dying Soldier to His Wife Dis... by andrelaszlo on Thursday March 17, 2016 @03:44AM (#11303031)
I was confused by the + signs, I read them like "plus" (is this a common use of this sign?) until I read the scanned letter, which was surprisingly easy to read. The signs looked much more like & ("and") than + to me.
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Re:Walt Whitman's Letter for a Dying Soldier to His Wife Dis... by evincarofautumn on Thursday March 17, 2016 @04:18AM (#11303113)
Yes, “+” is often used in handwriting (typically with a loop) to mean “and”. In casual speech or when teaching mathematics to young students, “+” can be pronounced “and”, as in “one and one make two”.
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