100 yrs ago people gather around sign boards to get the latest and word
would spread from that. News papers used to print several times a day in
that time as well amazing how computers changed things that fast :)
On May 20, 2016 8:12 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 05/20/2016 05:49 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric
Christopherson
<echristopherson at gmail.com> wrote:
OH! He invented the at sign!
;)
More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign: in Norwegian:
kr?ll-alfa ("curled alpha") in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?)
:-)
Another very interesting term to file away with German "Gaensefuesschen"
for quotation marks (usually the << and >> ones).
"Little goose feet".
--Chuck