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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:29:17 +0100
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From: "R.L. Hunsucker (UvA/UBA)" <hunsucker@uba.uva.nl>
Subject: (TAN:) Apes, snails etc.
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Someone just asked me whether there's a more graphic
[than e.g. "at" or "at sign"] designation in English language
usage for this sign: "@", as there is in other languages. I
didn't know for sure, but many of you surely do. (Maybe
this was even discussed here before.) MTIA.

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Laval Hunsucker
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