Revisiting the question of "Whats the '@' called".

[Rich Greenberg]

Many times in various groups the question of "Whats the .. character
called?" has popped up. When it recently came up in a mainframe
software list I contributed:

> The cutest one is the @ which in Scandanavia is known as a word that
> translates to cinnamon bun.

I was depending on stale memory here. Then an IBM friend asked me:

} Hi Rich, I passed this alternate character discussion on to a friend
} who works in IBM's web software group. She was very interested if you
} know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if
} you knew what that word actually was? She'd like to use this story as
} an example in a presentation she's going to give.

and I don't know the answer.

Can anybody help here?
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[tor...@sn.no]

ric...@netcom.com (Rich Greenberg) wrote:

>Many times in various groups the question of "Whats the .. character
>called?" has popped up. When it recently came up in a mainframe
>software list I contributed:
>
>> The cutest one is the @ which in Scandanavia is known as a word that
>> translates to cinnamon bun.
>
>I was depending on stale memory here. Then an IBM friend asked me:
>
>} Hi Rich, I passed this alternate character discussion on to a friend
>} who works in IBM's web software group. She was very interested if you
>} know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if
>} you knew what that word actually was? She'd like to use this story as
>} an example in a presentation she's going to give.
>
>and I don't know the answer.
>
>Can anybody help here?

In norwegian we affectionally use the name 'kanelbolle'.

Kanel = cinnamon
Bolle = bun, sweet roll.

It is also called hundebærsj, not so cute as it means dog turd...

The official name seems to be krøllalfa, 'curly alpha'.

Tor.

[Par Leijonhufvud labtek]

On 5 Apr 1999, Rich Greenberg wrote:

> } Hi Rich, I passed this alternate character discussion on to a friend
> } who works in IBM's web software group. She was very interested if you
> } know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if
> } you knew what that word actually was? She'd like to use this story as
> } an example in a presentation she's going to give.
>
> and I don't know the answer.
>
> Can anybody help here?

Swedish. Main usage is among "casual email users", at least in my
experience.

/Par

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[Erik Trulsson]

In comp.society.folklore tor...@sn.no wrote:
> ric...@netcom.com (Rich Greenberg) wrote:

>>Many times in various groups the question of "Whats the .. character
>>called?" has popped up. When it recently came up in a mainframe
>>software list I contributed:
>>
>>> The cutest one is the @ which in Scandanavia is known as a word that
>>> translates to cinnamon bun.
>>
>>I was depending on stale memory here. Then an IBM friend asked me:
>>

>>} Hi Rich, I passed this alternate character discussion on to a friend
>>} who works in IBM's web software group. She was very interested if you
>>} know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if
>>} you knew what that word actually was? She'd like to use this story as
>>} an example in a presentation she's going to give.
>>
>>and I don't know the answer.
>>
>>Can anybody help here?

> In norwegian we affectionally use the name 'kanelbolle'.

> Kanel = cinnamon
> Bolle = bun, sweet roll.

And in Swedish it is sometimes kalled "kanelbulle"
although the most common name for it seems to be
"snabel-a"

snabel = trunk (such as an elephant has)
a = well, the letter 'a' simply

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[Xslf]

In Israel @ is called Shetrudel, which indeed is a kind of a cinnamon bon :)

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[Jim Lucke]

On 5 Apr 1999 15:07:13 -0700, ric...@netcom.com (Rich Greenberg)
wrote:

>> She was very interested if you
>} know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if
>} you knew what that word actually was?

I've never heard it called cinnamon bun in Finland. Here it's called a
cat's tail or "miumau" (cat sound).

Jim Lucke (Texan living in Finland)

(remove one "w" from email address)

[Andras Erdei]

>>} Hi Rich, I passed this alternate character discussion on to a friend

>>} who works in IBM's web software group. She was very interested if you

>>} know which of the Scandanavian languages calls @ a cinnamon bun and if

>>} you knew what that word actually was? She'd like to use this story as
>>} an example in a presentation she's going to give.

In Hungary it is called "shift-kukac" meaning " shift-worm.