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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <DevNull@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Date: 1998/01/11
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In article <34B7ACEC.41C67EA6@on.spammer>, 
Veronica Karlsson <dream@on.spammer> writes:
>> As I have seen it used "@" simply means "at".
>
>The story I heard is that it _is_ the word "at". After being written
>many many times (don't remember why, I think it had something to do with
>prices)
 "Qty,Item,          price each, lot"
 "4   clockwork mice at 2/- ea., 8/-" and so forth;
                          (each)

 each line in the bill of goods having so-many items "at"
 unit-price "each" ==  lot-price, and a total for the
 whole shipment at the bottom.


 BTW, if you get involved with real pedants the round
 things are called "(parentheses)" left and right,
 and all usages for remarks in parenthesis or for numbering
 should be made with them.  The square things are called 
 "[brackets]" or braces, and these are "{curly brackets}".

 Parenthetical marks are neither described as "in brackets"
 or put in the square things, except possibly in US english.

                                            |~/           |~/
~~|;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;'^';-._.-;||';-._.-;'^';||_.-;'^'0-|~~
P |      Woof Woof, Glug Glug               ||____________||      0  | P
O |   Who Drowned the Judge's Dog?          | . . . . . . . '----. 0 | O
O |         answers on                  *---|_______________  @__o0  | O
L |{a href="news:alt.religion.scientology"}{/a}_____________|/_______| L
and{a href="http://www.xemu.demon.co.uk/clam/lynx/q0.html"}{/a}XemuSP4(:)