Sunday, February 23, 2020

What do *you* call "@"?

I was telling Carl a string of characters a couple of days ago (a password) and I said "commercial at sign" as one of the characters. He had never heard that term before, just calling it "at sign".

I decided to look up what it was appropriately called and found:

http://www.atsymbol.com/history.htm

If it is true that medieval monks used it to shorten the word "at", Carl and I think they would have done better with a shortened way to write "the", but... what do we know!

It was also interesting to see the names that the symbol is called in other languages.

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