October 6, 2005

Where it's @

Interesting article on other nations "definition" of the '@' symbol.
Where It's At -- and Where It's Not
I'm talking on the phone to an Israeli writer who goes by the nickname Winkie, and I want to send him some information. "What's your e-mail?" I ask.

"Winkie M, Strudel, Yahoo dot com," he says.

"Strudel?" I said. "As in the pastry?" (I'm thinking: Maybe he has a little bakery on the side?) "You mean WinkieM, then s-t-r-u-d- . . . "

"No, no -- it's strudel , that little A sign," he says. "I think you call it 'at'?"
The Canonical List can be found here: A Natural History of the @ Sign Posted by DaveH at October 6, 2005 12:37 PM
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