5 facts about @

@ All the familiar icon was not known in this country before the computer age. Usually when borrowing the name from another language is not new is invented, but simply copied. But sometimes the original name can be unpronounceable, indecent or relevant rules of the language. Apparently, this is what happened with the @ symbol – its official name of “commercial floor” Russian ear seems completely pointless. So why “dog”?

1. In the 1990′s, when the @ first tried to translate into Russian, there were a lot of options equal – “krakozyabrami”, “hook”, “frog”, “ear”, and others. True, they are now almost disappeared, and “dog” has spread around the Runet remained, because any language tends to have only one universal word for anything there. Other names are marginal, although there may be a lot. For example, in English, the @ symbol is called not only the words commercial at, but mercantile symbol, commercial symbol, scroll, arobase, each, about, etc.

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Incredible mosaic of the keys, watch parts and other mechanisms

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