Wednesday 27 January 2010

Question for January 28

X is described as following in various languages around the world.
Chinese - 'little mouse',
Danish - 'elephant's trunk',
Dutch - 'monkey's tail',
French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean - 'snail',
Hungarian - 'worm/maggot',
Russian - 'little dog',
Swedish - 'cat's foot',
Arabic, German, Turkish - 'ear'
Swedish - 'cinnamon bun',
Czech/Slovak - 'collared herring/rollmop'
Serbian - crazy "a"

Identify X.


4 comments:

shiv said...

the symbol '@'

Ankur said...

@ symbol?

Nikhil said...

The Om symbol?

The Answer said...

It is the '@' symbol. The question turned out to be harder than I thought. Congrats Shiv & Ankur. Good guesswork by Nikhil