Re: Puntuation stumper

[Dan Robinson <dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net>]

Not nit picking at all. It's not an ampersand. You're right, the
ampersand is the &.  The @  is known as the commericial at sign,
eg, two eggs @ $.50 each.  I've also seen it called the 'snail'.
There was a big discussion about it on the Stumpers group about a
year ago. The Stumpers archives are on a gopher server (who
remembers that???) that you can get to at
http://www.cuis.edu/~stumpers/ . (pretty neat, getting to a gopher
via a web link <grin>).

Dan Robinson
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H.W. Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com
dlrbnsn2@eclipse.net


On 24 Jan 00, at 15:33, Jill Hofmockel wrote:

> My first response to the question of what @ is called was to call it an
> ampersand, which a lot of people have also suggested.
>
> But, isn't & an ampersand?
>
> Sorry for the nit-pickiness.
>
> Jill
>

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