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Re: Java digits pronunciation

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On Friday, January 18, 2013 1:36:39 PM UTC-8, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 1/18/13 1:08 PM, Tim Slattery wrote: > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote: > > >> In fact, in another bus, later, I heard another person, a >> boy, speaking English in an American way, who said �What did >> he do/say?� (or something like this) pronounced as �What did >> he do slash say?� - I never heard this use of �slash� before! > > IM(NS)HO, that's ugly. It's certainly not typical here. > I've heard it, but more often that's pronounced "or" rather than "slash" when used in an utterance.

But pronouncing the "slash" is getting more common, especially in light of 
the Web (Ugh!). What bothers me is when people say "forward slash" instead of 
just "slash".

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Re: Java digits pronunciation markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2013-01-18 10:48 -0800
  Re: Java digits pronunciation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 10:59 -0800
    Re: Java digits pronunciation Tim Slattery <Slattery_T@bls.gov> - 2013-01-18 16:08 -0500
      Re: Java digits pronunciation Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2013-01-18 13:36 -0800
        Re: Java digits pronunciation FredK <fred.l.kleinschmidt@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 14:46 -0800
  Re: Java digits pronunciation Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-01-18 16:53 -0800

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