Corpora: the At sign

From: Tadeusz Piotrowski (tadpiotr@plusnet.pl)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 17:12:46 MET DST

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Dear All
I have a slightly unusual request: what do the speakers of various languages
call the at sign (@), as in the email addresses?
Germans and Poles call it monkey, Russians: little dog, etc etc.
Thank you very much.

Tadeusz Piotrowski
English Department
Opole University
Oleska 48
Opole
Poland
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