Ampersand Question

[KingBazza]

An ampersand stands for which letter of the alphabet ?
P or G or A or T or M?
Multiple choice question from Competitors Companion.
A is the obvious answer but is that too easy?

[waterboatman]

It stands for and.

[KingBazza]

Hi Waterboatman. I know it stands for "and" but it is a multiple choice question that only gives the five letters as options?

[waterboatman]

'And' is all it stands for KB. I don't know of any other meaning for it.

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, stands for a word (and) not a letter. It used to be combined with a letter which could also be a word on its own (A or I and sometimes O) which would then have ‘per se’ added.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand

[donny48]

T is the only one given that fits according to the following.
The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature (Evolution of the ampersand - figure 1). In the later and more flowing New Roman Cursive, ligatures of all kinds were extremely common; figures 2 and 3 from the middle of 4th century are examples of how the et-ligature could look in this script. During the later development of the Latin script leading up to Carolingian minuscule (9th century) the use of ligatures in general diminished. The et-ligature, however, continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and less revealing of its origin

[fiction-factory]

Is the above wording exactly how it appears?
I always thought it used to be the 27th letter of the alphabet for 'and' :.... X, Y, Z and , per se, 'and'.
Perhaps that's just an urban myth