In Flemish/Dutch, it's called "apenstart" or "apenstartje" (literally:
"ape's tail", or "ape's little tail") when talking _about_ the symbol - but
when dictating a mail address one would say, for example, "mister dot foobar
'at' wherever dot com".
John Shippey
john_shippey@hotmail.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tadeusz Piotrowski" <tadpiotr@plusnet.pl>
To: "Corpora@Hd.Uib.No" <corpora@hd.uib.no>
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: Corpora: the At sign
> 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
> tel/fax +48-71-3165847
> mobile +48-607-159263
>
>
>
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