Re: String name and Character Name

From: Patrick Andries (patrick.andries@xcential.com)
Date: Wed May 04 2005 - 08:26:22 CDT

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    Antoine Leca a écrit :
    On Friday, April 29, 2005 11:06 PM Philippe Verdy wrote:
    
      
    Don't forget the well-known traditional name for "@" in French: "une
    arrobace"
        
    
    Never _seen_ this one.
    
      
    Me neither. Any reference to show that it is indeed « traditional » ?
    I _know_ about "arrobe" or "arobe", which is indeed the traditional name of
    the thing (an unit of weight), whose counterpart is arroba in Spanish.
    Cf. http://hapax.qc.ca/Pourquoi_arrobe_dans_10646.html (see here the reference works named)

    P. A.


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