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In Dutch it used to be called "apestaartje" ("monkey tail"). Nowadays almost everyone pronounces it as "at", but until not so long ago e-mail addresses were spelled e.g. "johnsmith-apestaartje-hotmail-punt-com".

According to that wiki link from post 4:

In mainland China it is quan a (圈a), meaning "circled a" or hua a (花a, lacy a).

But I've only ever heard in pronounced "ai ta". There was a guy who named his son @ a while ago because "ai ta" with certain tones is 爱他 - "love him".

#3 I was asking if it was true but also shy about admitting to finding something on Wikipedia. In my industry people who rely on that site are called Wikipeadophiles!

The Japanese @ is quite boring by comparison- "atto maaku", which is just "at mark" transcribed into the Japanese syllabary.

In my industry people who rely on that site are called Wikipeadophiles!

how do you call people who perform polls on forums for information that is readily available?

I wasn't aware I was conducting a poll. I was asking for some extra information or sidelights from a group of people whose knowledge and opinions I respect.

Sorry if the reliability or otherwise of Wikipedia is a sensitive issue to you. I was under the impression that one of it's founders had said the website was an unreliable load of crap.

This can (and has in the past) lead to long discussions, but . . .
It's great how on the internet there's almost always someone somewhere who cares more about any given subject than you do, and who as a consequence has put an inordinate amount of time into maintaining a website or Wikipedia entry about it. Wikipedia is great, as long as you are aware of its limitations. Articles about, e.g., politics, controversial people, or disputed land borders are likely to attract biased writers and loonies. But most articles seem to tend to be written by people who simply care enough about the subject to devote their time to writing it down.

A few years ago researchers did a comparison study between Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica, and their overall scores were similar.

But regardless: what would we SiTizens do with ourselves if people stopped coming here to ask questions, even if only for readily available information?

MB, what do people in your industry say about misplaced apostrophes?

(Just teasing you but it is a bit ironic!)

Ooops! Mea culpa!