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Ask about English BBC Learning English 2008 Page 1 of 2 BBC Learning English Ask about English Symbol names A question from Pham Thanh Loan in Vietnam: How to read the word '@' used in the email address? Catherine Chapman answers: Nice question! OK, well I tell you what, let s take the email address of BBC Learning English as an example of how we pronounce this symbol. We need to look at the difference between telling and spelling. If you re telling someone the email address, it s easy, you say: Learning dot English at bbc dot co dot uk. So the way we tell someone this symbol is we say at. But, when people are spelling an email address, they sometimes use the name of the symbol and it has quite a few different names; people call it arroba or commercial at; they also call it the at sign and sometimes the at symbol.
Title: Symbol names Author: BBC Learning English Subject: Ask about English Keywords: Catherine Chapman, grammar, English, practise, practice, TEFL, ELT, expert, ask ...
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