Corpora: the At sign

[George Demetriou]

I know quite a few Greeks who call the @ sign the "little duck".

George Demetriou

> 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
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> Opole
> Poland
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