What is the etymology of @?

― kieran, Friday, 16 January 2004 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)

just a quick, malformed way of writing "at" innit. If you had to write that word a thousand times in some shopkeeping book you'd start missing out the cross in the "t" and overemphasising the rest of it.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 16 January 2004 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks very much

― Amity (Amity), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)