the at sign

What is its proper name? I know that ÷ has a proper name other than “division sign” and ¶ is a pilcrow.
Also what is the proper name of ÷ I know it was mentioned on the board but I didn’t find it in my search results.

The @ sign is called “petit ecargot”. (little snail)

Germans call it “Klammeraffe” (literally translated: clamp or clinging monkey).

see this

Strudel? Cabbage? Vortex?

http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/a/ASCII.html

What’s not proper about “at sign”?

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Where it’s “@”
ampersAT origin (@)
Symbol names
How do you say @?
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Name That Symbol
This is not a criticism of the OP, as it is pretty darned difficult to do a search on a single character symbol with a four-character minimum search argument.)

“at sign” doesn’t have any sense of elegance to it. Plus one can’t amaze people with one’s persipacity by using a ten cent word when a fifty cent word would be far more appropriate.

Also: ladybugs

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You misspelled pedantry. :wink: