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[herveus]

Radio ads frequently include mention of a web site one should go to for more information. They usually say something like "Go to mumble dot com slash foobar".

Usually.

Well, half the time, anyway.

American Express and Verizon (to name just two that jump to mind) seem to prefer "Go to mumble dot com backslash foobar". My browser rejects that sort of URL (quite correctly and sensibly).

I just figured out what's going on. It's the HD Intarweb. You know, web sites between the regular websites, just as HD Radio is "stations between the regular stations". Silly me. I just thought it was ignorant ad copy writers who thought a virgule was a "backslash", since it leans the other way from the one they use in Windoze, and that one *must* be a regular slash.

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Interet in HD Radio remains flat:

http://hdradiofarce.blogspot.com/2007/09/interest-in-hd-radio-remains-flat.html

[heatermcca.livejournal.com]

"virgule"

I ought to have known that there was a word for that particular character, if they're going to have ones like "tilde," "asterisk," and "ampersand" (which last I just like to say out loud for some reason.

So what *is* the proper term for a backslash?

[maggiebowgirl.livejournal.com]

And interestingly enough, the slash or virgule is different from the solidus or slash used to denote shillings. Oh the trivia!