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Rich Greenberg

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Apr 5, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/5/99
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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

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Apr 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/8/99
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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

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Apr 8, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/8/99
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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

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Apr 9, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/9/99
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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

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Apr 10, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/10/99
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In Israel @ is called Shetrudel, which indeed is a kind of a cinnamon bon :)

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Jim Lucke

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Apr 11, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/11/99
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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)

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Andras Erdei

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Apr 16, 1999, 3:00:00 AM4/16/99
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>>} 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.

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