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Enjoy!
By the way is the CPF0000 list still available?

Steven Donnellan
AS/400 Systems Manager
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
Simon Jersey Ltd

http://www.simonjersey.com
----- Forwarded by Steven Donnellan/SimonJersey on 02/09/02 11:27 -----

>From Netlingo.com:

How about this interesting, international tidbit: nearly all of the
languages have developed colloquial names for the @ sign which, for some
reason, have food or animal references. Check it out:


* In German, it is frequently called Klammeraffe, 'spider monkey' (you can
imagine the monkey's tail), though this word also has a figurative sense
very similar to that of the English 'leech' ("He grips like a leech").

* Danish has grisehale, 'pig's tail' (as does Norwegian), but more
commonly
calls it snabel a, 'a (with an) elephant's trunk', as does Swedish, where
it
is the name recommended by the Swedish Language Board.

* Dutch has apestaart or apestaartje, '(little) monkey's tail' (the 'je'
is
a diminutive); this turns up in Friesian as apesturtsje and in Swedish and
Finnish in the form apinanhanta.

* Finnish also has kissanh?nt?, 'cat's tail' and miukumauku, 'the miaow
sign'.

* In Hungarian it is kukac, 'worm; maggot',

* In Russian 'little dog',

* In Serbian majmun, 'monkey', with a similar term in Bulgarian.

* Both Spanish and Portuguese have arroba, which derives from a unit of
weight.

* In Thai, the name transliterates as 'the wiggling worm-like character'.

* Czechs often call it zavin?c which is a rolled-up herring or rollmop;

* The most-used Hebrew term is strudel, from the famous Viennese rolled-up
apple sweet.

* Another common Swedish name is kanelbulle, 'cinnamon bun', which is
rolled
up in a similar way.

PS:  The spell checker went nuts on this message!



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