The word for @

[BadBoy]

Originally Posted by RatPat

Lol...Well..I can say one thing...DO NOT TELL DARREN HES WRONG...Very bad thing to do, i bid you warning

Done, said and over with. Now let's move on.


Uhh, now where were we? Oh yeah...


In Italian, it's known as chiocciolina and in french, petite escargot - both meaning little snail.
In Germany, is referred to as Klammeraffe - or spider monkey.
The Dutch refer to it as api, shortened from apestaart , meaning monkey's tail.
In Finland it's a cat's tail or miau.
In Norway its called the kanel-bolle, a spiral-shaped cinnamon cake.
In Israel, it's called a shtrudel.
In Denmark, it's called a snabel.
In Spanish, it's called an arroba - a unit of about 25 lbs., for which it is the sign.

The wonderful @ sign.
Turned out to be a good idea here Darren!
Would anyone like to keep adding more to the list?

[Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks]

Originally Posted by BadBoy

Done, said and over with. Now let's move on.


Uhh, now where were we? Oh yeah...


In Italian, it's known as chiocciolina and in french, petite escargot - both meaning little snail.
In Germany, is referred to as Klammeraffe - or spider monkey.
The Dutch refer to it as api, shortened from apestaart , meaning monkey's tail.
In Finland it's a cat's tail or miau.
In Norway its called the kanel-bolle, a spiral-shaped cinnamon cake.
In Israel, it's called a shtrudel.
In Denmark, it's called a snabel.
In Spanish, it's called an arroba - a unit of about 25 lbs., for which it is the sign.

The wonderful @ sign.
Turned out to be a good idea here Darren!
Would anyone like to keep adding more to the list?

Errr...actually, in Norway, it's generally called the alphakroll(with a diagonal strike across the o) which means 'Curled alpha'. It compares the @ sign with the Greek letter alpha, and indicates that it is just the letter alpha with a round curl from the end of the lower tail. Anyway, Tokkolo is right, no one really calls it 'snabel-a' when talking about e-mail addresses and such in Sweden either. It is only used when talking about the sign.

[BadBoy]

Well I got it from a site I googled.
No way I would have known that.
It had others that it mentioned that it wasn't 100% sure of so I didn't list them.