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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
“snail” or petit escargot, meaning “little snail”German – In Germany, it is called Affenschwanz, meaning “monkey’s tail” or Klammeraffe, meaning “hanging monkey”Greek – In Greece, it is called papaki, meaning “little duck”Hebrew – It is shablul or shablool, meaning “snail” or a shtrudl, meaning “strudel”Hungarian – In Hungary, it is called a kukac, meaning “worm” or “maggot”Italian – In Italy it is called chiocciola, meaning “snail” and a commerciale, meaning “business a”Japanese – In Japan, it is called atto maaku, meaning “at mark”Mandarin Chinese – In Taiwan it is called xiao lao-shu, meaning “little mouse,” lao shu-hao, meaning “mouse sign,” at-hao, meaning “at sign” or lao shu-hao, meaning “mouse sign”Norwegian – In Norway, it is called either grisehale, meaning “pig’s tail” or kro/llalfa, meaning “curly alpha.” In academia, the English term “at” is widely usedPolish – In Poland, it is called malpa, meaning “monkey.” It is also called kotek, meaning “little cat” and ucho s’wini, meaning “pig’s ear”Portuguese – In Portugal it is called arroba, a unit of weightRomanian – In Romania, it is called la, a direct translation of English “at”Russian – Russians officially call it a kommercheskoe, meaning “commercial a”, but it is usually called sobachka, meaning “little dog”Spanish — Like in Portugal, in Spain it is called arroba, a unit of weightSwedish – The official term in Sweden is snabel-a, meaning “trunk-a,” or “a with an elephant’s trunk”Thai – There is no official word for it in Thai, but it is often called ai tua yiukyiu, meaning “the wiggling worm-like character”Turkish – In Turkey, most e-mailers call it kulak, meaning “ear”This article was originally published on June 24, 2010
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