Corpora: the At sign

Tadeusz Piotrowski tadpiotr at plusnet.pl
Thu Oct 11 15:12:46 UTC 2001


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
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