7 Jul
2016
7 Jul
'16
7:43 p.m.
On 7 July 2016 at 01:02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com> wrote:
On Friday, 1 July 2016 at 21:13:00 -0400, Steve
Nickolas wrote:
On the other hand, the OED has the following.
slash 5. A thin sloping line, thus /
solidus 2. A sloping line used to separate shillings from pence, as 12/6,
in writing fractions, and for other separations of figures and letters; a
shilling-mark.
I would argue "solidus" is closer.
N.
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Norman Wilson wrote:
For some definition of "proper". But it's doubly ambiguous: it's
the
French word for comma, and OED states:
A thin sloping or upright line (/, |) occurring in mediæval MSS. as
a mark for the cæsura or as a punctuation-mark (frequently with the
same value as the modern comma). I suspect Yanks being pedantic about `slash'
versus `forward slash'
would give an Englishman a stroke.
If that's too oblique for some of you, I can't help.
I think the proper term is "Virgule" anyway. ;)
In modern context, it might apply equally to \\.
Clearly that has even more capacity to confuse.
Greg
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