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at sign
The at-sign, ''@'', normally read aloud as "at", also commonly called the at symbol or commercial at, and less commonly a wide range of other terms (such as the strudel〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://foldoc.org/strudel )〕), is originally an accounting and commercial invoice abbreviation meaning "at a rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ £2 = £14).
It was not included on the keyboard of the earliest commercially successful typewriters, but was on at least one 1889 model〔("The @-symbol, part 2 of 2" ), ''(Shady Characters ⌂ The secret life of punctuation )''〕 and the very successful Underwood models from the "Underwood No. 5" in 1900 onward. It is now universally included on computer keyboards. The mark is encoded at .
The fact that there is no single word in English for the symbol has prompted some writers to use the French ''arobase''〔("Short Cuts" ), Daniel Soar, Vol. 31 No. 10 · 28 May 2009 page 18, London Review of Books〕 or Spanish and Portuguese ''arroba''—or to coin new words such as ''asperand'',〔("New York's Moma claims @ as a design classic" ), Jemima Kiss, 28 March 2010, The Observer〕 ''ampersat'',〔("… Tim Gowens offered the highly logical "ampersat" …" ), 05 February 1996, The Independent〕 ''apetail'', or "a snake" (because it looks like an a with a tail)—but none of these have achieved wide usage.
==History==
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