100 yrs ago people gather around sign boards to get the latest and word would spread from that. News papers used to print several times a day in that time as well amazing how computers changed things that fast :) On May 20, 2016 8:12 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
> On 05/20/2016 05:49 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > > On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Eric Christopherson > > <echristopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> OH! He invented the at sign! > >> > >> ;) > > > > More or less funny names for the commercial at-sign: in Norwegian: > > krøll-alfa ("curled alpha") in Swedish: kanelbulle ("cinnamon bun"?) > > :-) > > Another very interesting term to file away with German "Gaensefuesschen" > for quotation marks (usually the << and >> ones). > > "Little goose feet". > > --Chuck > >