Re: @

At 19:45 08/06/99 +1200, you wrote:
>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)
>
        I don't remember any French person calling it "escargot". In fact, I don't
even think it seems like a snail ("monkey's tail" seems better to me). In
French, we usually call this sign "arobas" (but most people don't even know
how to call it!), and only a few (like me) call it "at" when in a mail adress.

        As for &, we call it "et commercial" or another word I heard once but
can't remember. Any French or francophone conlanger to help me?

>- andrew.
>
>Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz
>
>        Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
>        Light dies before thy uncreating word:
>        Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
>        And Universal Darkness buries All.
>                        - Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book IV.
>
>
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