Re: @

[Dan Robinson / Indexing Services <drobinson@INFO.HWWILSON.COM>]

Sorry: the ampersand is the  &  mark.  There was a discussion on this
in Stumpers awhile ago.  One post noted a William Safire 'On
Language' column from the N Y Sunday Times Magazine where he
discussed the various signs on a typewriter keyboard.  One of them
was  @.  According to Safire, It is called the 'at' sign, while sone
people referred to it as a 'snail'.

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Dan Robinson
Indexing Services
H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com

On 31 Oct 97 at 9:57, Kevin S. Roe wrote:

> @ in an ampersand.
>
> ----------
> > From: LAURIE PURDY <LP1001@UMSD.K12.PA.US>
> > To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> > Subject: @
> > Date: Thursday, October 30, 1997 1:21 PM
> >
> > Does anyone know what the "@" symbol is called?  I know it
> > means  -at- but we wondered if the symbol had a name.   Help!
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> > Laurie Purdy
> > lp1001@umsd.k12.pa.us.
> > Upper Moreland Middle School
> > A National Blue Ribbon School
> >

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