What name should we give the "@" symbol?

[Stanley Design]

There's no name for it, it's been around for what? A couple decades, with no name. What should we call it?

[FL Knifemaker]

Originally Posted by Todd Stanley

There's no name for it, it's been around for what? A couple decades, with no name. What should we call it?

"at"

[Mon Rominee]

It's called a "circa" or "circle a"

[Phalex]

They have the coolest name for it in Spanish. I have no idea how to spell it though.

Anybody??

[dlloyd]

It's been around for a lot longer than email has, and in English is called 'at', and was used for bills etc:

12 bananas @ 2p = 24p

Here's a bunch of names from different countries. I make no claim to their accuracy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/notesandqu...,-1773,00.html

[stedtale]

Formally, its official, typographic character nomenclature is "commercial at".

In German it sometimes used to be referred to as Klammeraffe (meaning "spider monkey").

In Swiss German it is commonly called Affeschwanz ("monkey-tail").

In French it is arobase or arrobe or a commercial (though this is most commonly used in French-speaking Canada.

It was a 15th-century Spanish unit of weight: arroba = jar.

In Italian it is chiocciola ("snail").

[The Golden Boy]

Ampersand... Part 2.

Ampersat?

[kydnav]

But ofcourse! That's an apenstaartje!

[Bryan316]

Ampersand is incorrect. That's the name for the symbol ' & '.

Commercial at is the correct term.

AT is what I call it.

[Diggler]

I thought it was a nipple.

[stedtale]

Originally Posted by Diggler

I thought it was a nipple.

the nipple of the internet, AKA the internipple.

[morf]

@ = at, or arobasse (oh yea) in french.

[Phalex]

Originally Posted by kydnav

But ofcourse! That's an apenstaartje!

I like that one!! Of course I'm a bit partial being a Hollander myself.

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by Todd Stanley

There's no name for it, it's been around for what? A couple decades, with no name. What should we call it?

I don't even get how this sentence exists. That sign has been around a hundred years at least, with a meaning: "at". Most signs in English are just named with their meanings, not a separate name: "the stop sign", "the dollar sign", "the peace sign", etc. Even the ampersand was just "and" or "the and sign" until the last century.

[Philbiker]

Originally Posted by FL Knifemaker

"at"

[Tsal]

In Finnish slang it's called a miu-mau (meow-mow), since it kinda looks like a cat with a tail around it. We don't have too many monkeys around here!

[meanjohn]

I'm told in University that it is called ad.

It is Latin, meaning at. It was used in manuscripts to save space.

[Pilgrim]

I heard it called 'circa" more than 30 years ago. That term has been mostly replaced by 'at".

[Infernal Affair]

Originally Posted by Tsal

In Finnish slang it's called a miu-mau (meow-mow),

Hey. That sounds like a good band name!

[Mon Rominee]

Originally Posted by Pilgrim

I heard it called 'circa" more than 30 years ago. That term has been mostly replaced by 'at".

exactly....like I said earlier. Thank you.