Corpora: the At sign

[Jasper Holmes]

Tadeusz,

There was a discussion about this on LinguistList ( http://www.linguistlist.org ) some time ago:

7.256: Software for Arabic, The @ sign, Grammatical number
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7.256.2 "Karen S. Chung": @
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7.292: Minimalism, @, Complements, Glossolalia
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7.292.2 "Karen S. Chung": Second call: @
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7.968: The @ symbol
7.968.1 "Karen S. Chung": @ summary (*very* long)

7.1177: The @ sign: addendum
7.1177.1 "Karen S. Chung": The @ sign: addendum

Yours,
Jasper

Tadeusz Piotrowski wrote:
>
> 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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