Re: the @ sign (again!)

["Dave L. Meek's User Account" <dave -at- ROGUE -dot- DISC-SYNERGY -dot- COM>]

     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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