Re: the @ sign (again!)

Subject: Re: the @ sign (again!)
From: "Dave L. Meek's User Account" <dave -at- ROGUE -dot- DISC-SYNERGY -dot- COM>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 1995 13:43:11 -0700

Romay Sitze wrote:
At the risk of opening up yet another can of worms (8-)):

On Wed, 9 Aug 1995, Dave L. Meek's User Account wrote:

> This post reminds me of the recent "@" thread. A few days ago, I asked
> an accountant friend of mine about the @, and he said it was
> called the "at cost" sign.

So what do you call the @ sign when it precedes part of an address as in

John Doe
@ Jane Doe
0000 Sample Lane
Anywhere, World

<snip>

In my writing, I call it "the '@' symbol" and use the symbol
itself.

If I couldn't simply write "the '@' symbol" (which has *never*
happened to me), I would call it the "at cost" symbol. From the misty
recesses of my memory, I remember "at cost" as being the proper name for the
@ symbol. The use of @ has expanded in the intervening
years, but that doesn't *necessarily* mean the symbol's
name has changed (though it could have).

In conversation, I call it the "at" symbol because most people
understand what I'm referring to.



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