Passing of R. Tomlinson
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Fri May 20 20:12:03 CDT 2016
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:
> krøll-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
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