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by Leynos 3557 days ago
It used to be fairly common in manufacturing and retail, where you might have a line on an invoice stating:

12 widgets @ £12ea

Having seen that usage (coming from a family that ran a small business), the email address notation made sense straight away.

On the other hand, I probably pronounced the dot in ".com" as "point" at least once, before hearing it read aloud by someone else.