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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<\/a>, including such fun bits as aapstert <\/em>(monkey’s tail) in Afrikaans, zavinac <\/em>(pickled herring) in Czech, snabel <\/em>(elephant’s trunk) in Danish, and shablul<\/em> (snail) in Hebrew. Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hi-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8687,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/one_ringle_ding.html","url_meta":{"origin":8609,"position":0},"title":"One ringle-Dingle …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Sep-05 4:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Irish town of Dingle is changing its name to its historic Gaelic Irish version, An Daingean. 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