2007-01-31 04:11:42 · 44 answers · asked by dotwiley73 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Well if you go to Wikipeidia it says:
@ - at. mostly originated from internet jargaon, that is from email addresses and others.
It is often referred to informally as the at symbol, the at sign, the ampersat, or just at. It has the official name commercial at in the ANSI/CCITT/Unicode character encoding standards.
2007-01-31 04:18:09 · answer #1 · answered by Rawr.FearMe. 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The at sign @, read aloud in English as "at" is a typographic symbol most commonly used as an abbreviation in accounting and commercial invoices, in statements such as "7 widgets @ $2 ea. = $14". More recently, the at symbol has become ubiquitous due to its use in email addresses.
2007-01-31 04:17:20 · answer #2 · answered by pamomof4 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The symbol @ means at. One way it is used is email. example@yahoo.com
The first email was sent in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson, who used the @ sign to separate the user's name from the computer's name.
2007-01-31 04:23:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the symbol @ means "at"
2007-01-31 04:22:01 · answer #4 · answered by abnatra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The symbol "@" equals to the word "at". When you write your email you insert the symbol @ e.g. "zodiac_m@yahoo.com, means, "zodiac_matyahoo.com (by the way, this is an imaginary email address).
2007-01-31 04:20:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most people have answered 'at' as the meaning of @. In actual fact it is known as the "Commercial 'at' " since it's original use was in commerce to signify prices such as 'Books @ £1 each'. Since the introduction of email the @ sign has been used to denote addresses too such as 'rickyb@yahoo.co.uk' . It should never be used in replacement of the word 'at' in a written sentence such as 'Today I was at the market.' written as 'Today I was @ the market.'
2007-01-31 04:51:15 · answer #6 · answered by quatt47 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
@ - at. mostly originated from internet jargaon, that is from email addresses and others.
is often referred to informally as the at symbol, the at sign, the ampersat, or just at. It has the official name commercial at in the ANSI/CCITT/Unicode character encoding standards.
2007-01-31 04:19:28 · answer #7 · answered by Ani 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe it means AT
2007-01-31 04:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by connor'snana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means "at"
although when I was very young, they did use it in stores to mean "for" as in (for instance) 3 @ $5.50 meaning you could get all three for only 5 dollars and 50 cents.
2007-01-31 04:21:52 · answer #9 · answered by moonshadow 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means at
2007-01-31 04:16:01 · answer #10 · answered by Fantasy686 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋