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by gvx 1416 days ago
Yeah, in Dutch it's "apenstaartje" (little monkey's tail), although the last decades, it's becoming far more common to use the English "at".
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it's "Klammeraffe" in German, spider monkey, and figuratively a small monkey clinging to / clasping someone or something.
It's "zavináč" in Czech -- pickled herring. If you buy them in a jar, they're rolled up, looking a lot like that symbol.
I kept a collection of names for @ on my first website: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202002949/www.student.nada....