From: ats@offog.org (Adam Sampson)
Subject: [TUHS] Slashes
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 19:26:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y2a37nhmjsr.fsf@cartman.at.offog.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160708112534.B13184422B@lignose.oclsc.org> (Norman Wilson's message of "Fri, 8 Jul 2016 07:25:34 -0400 (EDT)")
norman at oclsc.org (Norman Wilson) writes:
> It's unclear exactly how far back it dates. The earliest OED citation
> for `slash' as `A thin sloping line, thus /' is dated 1961; but the
> cite is from Webster's 3rd.
A bit of searching finds earlier American examples in the context of
livestock brands. For example, from "Hot Irons: Heraldry of the Range",
1940:
A crude sign at a dirt turnoff will have been "painted" with a hot
iron, reading V-/ 8.
You may or may not know that the V Bar Slash ranch house is eight
miles down that trail [...]
Or in State v. Craig, New Mexico, 1922:
The calves were then placed in a corral at the Webber ranch, and
several days later were branded by appellant with A slash brand and
then turned into the open pasture.
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Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> <http://offog.org/>
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-08 11:25 [TUHS] Slashes (was: MS-DOS) Norman Wilson
2016-07-08 13:16 ` John Cowan
2016-07-08 14:06 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-10 18:26 ` Adam Sampson [this message]
2016-07-08 14:52 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
2016-07-09 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
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
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