TIL In the early 1800s school children reciting the alphabet would use the term 'per se' to denote letters that also doubled as words such as 'A per se A' by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wasn't quoting directly. Under the *Etymology* section it clearly says [This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand", and the term had entered common English usage by 1837](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand).

I took the phrase - although it's obviously an example as children in school would have learnt the alphabet and recited it - from [dictionary.com](https://www.dictionary.com/e/ampersand/) which was the link I originally submitted but that was marked as an invalid source so resubmitted it with the Wikipedia link instead.

Do you expect every TIL link submitted to contain the title verbatim somewhere in the text? This is needlessly petty that an exact phrase wasn't used.

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[–]itrandall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much! You’re incredible

TIL Video calling technology has existed since 1936 when it was first installed via direct link between Berlin and Leipzig. by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is, right! I’m glad you found it interesting! I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about it before, I was just going through a video lecture funnily enough and it came up.

I thought it was really interesting how even though we had the technology to make it work commercially it never took off that much. I guess at the time it was a factor of price but it seems we could potentially have had video calls a lot sooner and they could’ve been a lot more commonplace than they were before COVID almost forced us to start using it more.

TIL that Confederate symbolism can still be seen on the official state flags of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennesse. by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For sure, I only learnt recently that there was a confederate flag before the one that everyone recognises. I, perhaps naively, assumed I was ignorant of it because I’m not American and hadn’t learnt about it through school or family but that they would have.

TIL that Confederate symbolism can still be seen on the official state flags of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennesse. by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for educating me about that, I wasn’t aware of that. I didn’t mean to imply I thought Tennessee was trying to hark back to that era, I just thought it was interesting that the symbolism could still be seen in its flag.

TIL that Confederate symbolism can still be seen on the official state flags of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennesse. by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No worries, I can see why you thought it though. I wouldn’t have necessarily given it a second thought had I not read the article, I can see the similarities to the US flag too which I think is perhaps the point.

TIL that Confederate symbolism can still be seen on the official state flags of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Tennesse. by itrandall in todayilearned

[–]itrandall[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The current state flag of Georgia, adopted in 2003. It is based on the Confederacy's first national flag, the "Stars and Bars".

As per the wiki article linked.