How to target specific letter/word with jquery?

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Published on 2010-03-27T17:34:47Z Indexed on 2010/03/27 17:43 UTC
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As a mere example, I want to apply the class "fancy" to all occurrences of the sign "&" in the document.

The CSS:

.fancy { font-style: italic; }

So a text that looks like this:

Ben & Jerry's

would be manipulated by jquery to this:

Ben <span class="fancy">&</span> Jerry's

Is there a function to target specific words/phrases/letters like this?

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