Re: new name for @ sign

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

Unfortunately, that makes a mush of the etymology of "ampersand," a
conflation of "and per se and" (they talked funny in those days <grin>).
Anyway, "the 'at' sign" is more meaningful and takes fewer syllables than
"the ampersat."

But it is about time this whole thread about the "at" sign be @ an end ...

Ken

At 12:41 PM 11/5/97 -0500, you wrote:
>On public radio, I heard someone suggest that @ should be an "ampersat"
>since & is an ampersand.
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