29.3891, Qs: History of Slash/Virgule

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Subject: 29.3891, Qs: History of Slash/Virgule

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Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2018 05:19:32
From: Andres de la Roche [adelaroc1 at gmail.com]
Subject: History of Slash/Virgule

 
Hello, can you tell me at what point in time people started using the
slash/virgule to replace the word ''with'', instead replacing it as ''w/''?

Is this a something that happened in the 80s? 90s? A specific year?

Thanks,

Andres
 

Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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