From: pete@dunnington.plus.com (pete)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 22:23:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <630e0bac-c96a-5b2f-ecee-b95c0fb8ebf5@dunnington.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201607091322.u69DMtSu001030@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
On 09/07/2016 15:22, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> If 19961 is the oldest citation the OED can come up with, "slash"
> really is a coinage of the computer age. Yet the character had
> been in algebra books for centuries
1961 is about the time I was learning to type (in Britain), and I was
taught it as "slash". My mother - who was an excellent professional
typist but never had any contact with computers - almost always referred
to '/' as "slash". The one exception I can recall is in the usage "...
and/or ..." where it was sometimes spoken as "... and or or ..."
(though often the first "or" was simply omitted).
--
Pete
Pete Turnbull
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-10 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-09 13:22 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-09 15:59 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 6:44 ` Peter Jeremy
2016-07-10 14:11 ` Nemo
2016-07-10 20:23 ` pete [this message]
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2016-07-10 0:52 Doug McIlroy
2016-07-10 1:51 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 12:09 ` Tony Finch
2016-07-11 12:34 ` John Cowan
2016-07-14 14:48 ` Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 14:52 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Clem Cole
2016-07-09 16:47 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-09 17:03 ` John Cowan
2016-07-09 17:21 ` Milo Velimirovic
2016-07-10 14:38 ` [TUHS] Slashes Christian Neukirchen
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-10 18:26 ` [TUHS] Slashes Adam Sampson
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