What is the proper term for the little @ sign?

According to the American Heritage Dictionary's table of signs and symbols, the @ symbol is called, rather disappointingly, simply at.

That's what I always call it myself. There may well be a more hi-falutin term for it, but if so I don't know it.

Webster's signs and symbols table also gives it as at, but also offers each. No hifalutin term there either.

The French call it an 'aerobole', which is a great word isn't it ?I speculate here, but it looks as though the word may have been originally for some movement in aerobatics, like a loop-the-loop, which would figure ( from Greek words for 'air' and 'to throw' Cf parabola ). Why don't we adopt it into English? (Aw, come on, it's only words here, not politics !)

In British English, the only names for this mark are 'the at sign/symbol' or, sometimes, 'the commercial at sign/symbol'. It has the latter name because it is most often used in business in sentences such as: "14 items @ £12.50 = £175.00.
There simply is no other name in this language. I understood the French called it an 'arobase', but - arobase/aerobole - that's of little use to you unless you live in France or Quebec! The Dutch, apparently, call it a monkey's tail! However, I guess you're not in Holland either.

hmmm, thanks for the info, I am a little disappointed that it doesn't have a fancier name, go figure!!!!!

Why don't we adopt it into English?
No!! Down with the French! Bad French, bad!! And since they even have a word for the symbol, let's stop using the symbol at all! Let's stop doing anything that might be remotely considered French! Grrr!

Um, yeah, anyway. It's just the "at" sign. That's why e-mail addresses, for instance, are "somedude AT someserver dot com."