Weblogs: Does '@' stand for 'pig's tail' or 'strudel'?

CNET News.com: "Not so in non-English-speaking lands, where the [@] symbol may not have existed prior to the popularity of digital missives, and where some very creative solutions have been put forth to the problem of what, exactly, to call this odd-looking import.

Here are some of our favorites:

• In Dutch it's called, among other things, the apestaart, or 'monkey's tail.'

• The Danish call it the snabel, or 'elephant's trunk,' and sometimes the grisehale, or 'pig's tail.'

• The French have been known to refer to @ as the petit escargot, or 'little snail,' and

• in Hebrew, some call it the shtrudl, or 'strudel.'"

(For more, see Herodios.)