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I believe @ is called the snail in Danish. Snegle. Actually is snail another word from Danish that English adopted? Update: not even close, not on your Nellie
by zeristor 4y ago
I believe @ is called the snail in Danish. Snegle.
Actually is snail another word from Danish that English adopted?
Update: not even close, not on your Nellie even.
“In Danish, it is snabel-a ('elephant's trunk A').”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign
Apologies I seem to find rabbit holes within rabbit holes, Not on your Nellie being Cockney rhyming slang, just tied into Nellie the Elephant:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=not%20on%20your%20nellie https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=not%20on%20y...
- martopix 4y agoIt's also called snail (chiocciola) in Italian.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoIn Dutch it's called a monkey's tail (apenstaartje), though nowadays most people refer to it using the English 'at'.
- lordnacho 4y ago> Actually is snail another word from Danish that English adopted? Likely due to common roots rather than transplant. You'll find a similar word in the other Germanic languages. Snabel-a in Danish is correct, you'll hear it all the time when there's an email address.
- daneel_w 4y agoSnabel-a is also very common in Sweden. It's the "correct" colloquialism here, with the exception for children and teenagers who say "bulle/kanelbulle".