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Earlier this week I thought of another possible theory behind the Russian naming of the @ symbol (earlier discussion can be found here). Until this point, the theories all focused on the connections with dogs. This is only logical, of course, because ??????/??????? means dog in Russian. However, ??????? can also mean trigger and, since several of the theories thus far rely on the symbol’s resemblence to a curly canine tail, it doesn’t hurt to mention that the symbol also sort of looks like the trigger of a gun.

Perhaps it was given the name because of its trigger-like resemblence, but as e-mail and the internet’s popularity grew people started to assume that the origin was related to dogs.

Bogus? Any thoughts? If so, post them at the original entry.