At sign

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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,
[1][2][3][4]
is originally an accounting and commercial invoice
abbreviation meaning "at the rate of" (e.g. 7 widgets @ 2 = 14). In recent
years, its meaning has grown to include the sense of being "located at" or
"directed at", especially in email addresses and social media, particularly
Twitter.
It was not included on the keyboard of the earliest commercially successful
typewriters, but was on at least one 1889 model
[5]
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
U+0040 @COMMERCIAL AT (HTML: @ ).
[Note: The following information implies that there is a need to go outside
the English language to nd a single-word name for the "at sign." However,
this is not necessary, since the term "at sign" began to be used in 1982 for
the symbol "@."
[6]
] The fact that there is no single word in English for the
symbol has prompted some writers to use the French arobase
[7]
or Spanish
and Portuguese arrobaor to coin new words such as asperand,
[3]
ampersat
[8]
or apetail
[citation needed]
but none of these has achieved wide
usage.
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