We have heard many people reading out the email address. aksharrif@yahoo.com is read as akshariff at the rate of yahoo.com.
It is very peculiar to expand the symbol@ as at the rate of.
We hear this mainly in this part of the world.
@ needs to be read as at. It is meaningful because the unique email id akshariff is located at the server yahoo.com
Remember one thing: @ symbol IS NOT exclusively for email addresses. Long time before all of us were born, in fact, even way before our fathers started having wet dreams, the @ symbol was used in commerce and yes, it already meant "at" back then.It was used to give the price of goods in relation to the quantity of that particular good.
For example:
1 Washer Machine @ $53.00 ea. = $53.00(one washer machine at $53.00 each)
3 Hamburgers @ 5¢ = 15¢(three burgers at five cents each)
4 oranges @ 3¢ each = 12¢(four oranges at three cents each)
A clarification was sought when an author wrote in his research paper that silkworms were fed with mulberry leaves @ 15 kg per 400 worms whether @ meant at or something else.
Globally, @ is read as at, not at the rate of.
Let us follow this.
Sunday, September 02, 2007
Does @ mean at the rate of?
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Even i have also faced this situation but as far as my reading is concerned the pronounciation should At while it is used with an email id and At the rate of when it is used in monetary terms. Very often i hear people saying someone at the rate of ...com. I dont subscribe to this view.
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Dear friend,
Even for monetary term it is not at the rate of. When I used it in one of my research manuscripts years ago, the westerners wondered what it was. They said, if I wanted to at the rate of, I better write it, and not use the symbol @, becasue this symbol meant 'at'
The typographic character @, called the at sign or at symbol, is an abbreviation of the word at or the phrase at the rate of in accounting and commercial invoices, e.g. "7 widgets @ $2 = $14".
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WIKIPEDIA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@
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