Re: @

At 08:24 -0500 8.6.1999, Carlos Thompson wrote:
>Andrew Smith escribi=F3:
>>
>> A question to a question and answer page in the NZ Listener asked what is
>> the @ symbol called?  It produced these answers:
>>
>> English, "commercial at"
>> German, "klammeraffe" (spider monkey), or "affenschwanz" (monkey's tail)
>> Dutch, "apestaartje" (monkey's tail)
>> Danish and Norwegian, "grisehale" (pig's tail) or "snabel" (with an
>> elephant's trunk)
>> Finnish, "kissanhanta" (cat's tail) or "miukumauku" (miaow sign)
>> Hungarian, "kukac" (worm or maggot)
>> Czech, "zavinac" (rollmop herring)
>> Hebrew, "strudel" (Viennese apple pastry)
>> Swedish, "kanelbulle" (cinnamon bun)
>> French, "escargot", (snail)
>
>In Spanish is called "arroba" (weith measure =3D 25 pounds).
>
>-- Carlos Th
There are other and more common terms in Swedish (_snabel-a_
"elephant-trunked a") and Norwegian (_alfasnabel_ "alpha elephant trunk").
Some Swedes say _apa_ "ape/monkey".

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