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Posted Nov 27, 2000 by Zathras (Unofficial Custodian of H2G2 Room 101. ACE and holder of the BBC Pens)
I seem to recall the Guardian having on ongoing letters page debate about the name for @.
My favourite was atpersand by analogy with ampersand (&).
Zathras
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Posted Nov 27, 2000 by Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here
I like it. Now all we have to do is get it introduced into the English-speaking world's dictionarys. 
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Posted Nov 28, 2000 by Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Why change the name? Stick with "at".
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Posted Nov 28, 2000 by Zathras (Unofficial Custodian of H2G2 Room 101. ACE and holder of the BBC Pens)
You read it 'at' but you still need a name for the symbol. Otherwise you would have to say "you know, that symbol that means at that they use in email addresses"
Zathras
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Posted Nov 29, 2000 by Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Why? We call "%" percent. We don't say "that sign that means "per cent". Similarly, dollar, star, plus, equals. Why should "at" be any different?
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Posted Nov 29, 2000 by Lonnytunes - Winter Is Here
In my experience, most people when giving out an email address verbally say (for instance):- "loony at, you know - start making vague circular movements with their hand - xtra.co.nz".
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Posted Nov 30, 2000 by Gnomon [See A60420098 for details of new sign-in system]
Maybe I'm just showing my age. I was taught in school that this was at. We had maths problems to do with 5 apples @ 3d each. To me, it is as much "at" as % is percent. It never occurred to me that not everyone thinks of it like that.
The symbol with the most problems of naming is #. I've heard it called:
hash
hatch
number
cardinal
pound sign
chicken scratch
sharp
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Posted Jun 4, 2002 by Researcher 195787
hmm, well, "at' is boring. The Swedes call it "cinamon bun'; the Germans 'spider monkey'; and the Italians and French call it 'snail'. We should call it "at"?
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Posted Sep 23, 2002 by skinme
squibble
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Posted Dec 18, 2002 by turvy. No more than 30 charac~
I'm with Gnomon on this one.
'At' is a perfectly good and understandable name for the @ symbol.
BTW the # is also shorthand for 'fracture' in medical circles - #NOF would be fractured neck of Femur. I have always know # as hash or representing number, however I have also heard it called the 'square key' in relation to phone key pads.
turvy
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Posted Dec 26, 2002 by The Guy With The Brown Hat
I always thought it was just called "the at sign" or "the at symbol".
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Posted Oct 27, 2004 by cyriax
"klammeraffe" means not "spider monkey" but "bracket monkey" or "monkey who hold itself on somthing the whole time" (If some germans have better expressions...)
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Posted Oct 27, 2004 by Cefpret
Accoding to Wikipedia, "spider monkey" is an existing species, and its German translation is "Klammeraffe".
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Posted Oct 28, 2004 by cyriax
mayby the same species is called "Klammeraffe" but the most germans (like me) don't realize that
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Posted Jul 31, 2005 by another primate (called rik)
Spider monkeys have a ridiculously prehensile tail... its pretty much like a 5th limb, and appears to have a mind of its own. They are also highly arboreal, so monkey that holds itself on something the whole time seems rather apt.
Don't know how that connects with @ though...
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