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Via IO9 I learned that Wired has an interesting piece about the probable monastic scribal origin of the @ sign, as a way of indicating \u201cat\u201d (whether in English or another language). It seems th@ monks beg@ this bit of shorthand \u2013 in the Biblical sense. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":16982,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[271,1140,6963,7623,7638,10937,12157],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bible","tag-271","tag-bible","tag-manuscripts","tag-monastery","tag-monks","tag-scribes","tag-symbol"],"yoast_head":"\n
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