The “@” sign is a natural in English, but has been imposed on the rest of the Internet-using world that doesn’t have a tradition of it or of the English word “at.” So various local names have cropped up for the symbol, including such fun bits as aapstert (monkey’s tail) in Afrikaans, zavinac (pickled herring) in Czech, snabel (elephant’s trunk) in Danish, and shablul (snail) in Hebrew. Cool.
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That’s interesting. We call it ‘arroba’ and I never knew what it meant. :/ Seems so long and weird, ‘at’ is so practical. 🙂