Natural History of the @ Sign

When we were in Italy, one point of education was the names Italian speakers use for Internet terms. i.e. Dot (.) = punto. I could never remember what they called the @ sign, though. This site came to my aid.

(It is "chiocciola" pronounced "kee-AH-cho-la" , BTW)

Find out how non-English speakers across the globe have included Internet-speak into their native tongues.

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