[UK-CONTEST] The at sign

[Tim Makins, EI8IC]

Can you be a little more specific, with a useage-example ? I don't
understand what you mean by 'at each'. Although at 46 I might not be classed
as an 'old-timer', I still remember seeing the local grocer in North
Yorkshire list the shopping that our family had ordered as, for instance:

4lbs bananas @ 1/3d per pound

The 'at each' doesn't seem to work in that example ?

My mother would telephone in the weekly grocery order, which was delivered
by a boy on one of those old black bicycles with a frame carrier over the
front wheel. No impulse shopping in those days !

73s Tim EI8IC
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----- Original Message -----
> To put the record straight -   the @ sign did not mean "at" in the
> commercial and financial world, it meant "at each". Clearly "@" is not
much
> of an abbreviation for "at" . It is only in recent years that the meaning
> has changed by those from the non-commercial world and it grates every
time
> I see it misused.
>
> Neil, G3RIR