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how do you call the @ symbol?? i used to call it "monkey" (in polish of course), because i was taught to call it so. but my brother, who is studying informatics, told me yesterday that & should be called "monkey" and @ - "elephant's ear"  any comments on that?
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I call it the "at" sign, but you might want to do a search, I think we #'ed this one over a little while back... 
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"Here boy! Here boy!"
No, I've always called it the at-sign.
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For me,
@ is the AT symbol (first learned in math class, (how much would you need to purchace a 3 lb bag of apples if they sell 1lb. @ 73cent..(and you use the word at when you see the symbol)
# was the number symbol, but the telephone company instist on calling it a "pound" symbol, and i have learned here it is also called Octothorp!
$ US dollar symbol
% Percent symbol
^ carot --use as accent mark, and in Math (excel programing) to indicate an exponent. In editing, it could mean "insert"
& Ampersand -is the name, and it "reads" as and, ie, Johnson & Sons= Johnson and Sons. this was discussed, it might come from a rote teaching style, as
A as in apple
b as in boy
etc,
with the symbol being
& as per AND,
* Atrerix (from the latin for star, a little star)
( Parens -- a pair ( ) would be parenthesis with various uses in text and Math
| is the Pipe symbol..and it is used in Programing.
: colon and ; semi -colon...
< and > are either arrow points (pointers) or greater than/less than symbols... depending on whether its is text or numbers..
? is technically an interogitive-- but i never call it that... it is a question mark
! is an exclamation mark
[ ] are brackets,
{ } are braces!
/ \ are slashes,
- - are dashes!
~ is a tilde
there are one or two others on a standard keyboard, and many more in the Character set...
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interesting, how different nations see @ symbol. I gather, it's "arroba" in Spanish, "sobaka" - a dog among Russian e-mail users, "snail" in Sweden (if I remember correctly)
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I don't know if you bargained for so many words, rav, but here you go..... http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/whereat.htmQuinion mentions, 'at the price of'. In a conversation with my accountant some years back, it was revealed to me that in trade and business circles in India, this symbol is expanded as, 'at the rate of'. Which in turn, takes my mind to something that Nehru once said, (I can't remember the exact quote) about how, in India, the old never gets replaced by the new; the old always co-exists with the new harmoniously. Edit:Would you believe, there is yet another one!! This seems to be the most current of them all - 'atmark'.
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# was the number symbol, but the telephone company instist on calling it a "pound" symbol, and i have learned here it is also called Octothorp! also, "hash", no?
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At is also called "commercial at" (but I actually didn't know that till quite recently -- read it somewhere).
Synonyms for the forward slash (/): virgule, solidus, separatrix, oblique stroke.
Not aware of alternate nomenclature for the backslash (\).
The pipe symbol (|) is also called a vertical bar or just 'bar'.
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