>Maybe I'm alone in this, maybe too touchy, but hearing URLs pronounced, on radio or TV, with 'forward slash' in them drives me nuts. As far as I know, the back-slash was invented for PC pathnames and is used for nothing else. It didn't appear on old typewriters and for all internet addresses, only SLASH is used. It's always been called 'slash' (or more accurately, pre-computers jargeon, 'solidus', 'stroke' or 'oblique'), so why do presenters, when giving you their URL, insist on saying 'forward slash'?
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>e.g. 'BBC dot co dot uk - forward slash - history'.
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>(why don't they say 'full-stop' or 'period' instead of 'dot' while they're at it? They don't say 'commercial at' (@) in email addresses).
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>What's worse,the presenter sometimes describes the slash with his hand which, to the viewers, looks like back-slash anyway.
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>And while they're at it, would they stop wasting even more of my listening time by saying 'double-u, double-u, double-u' every time! They're practically ALL "www", we all know that by now, and who types that in anyway! Or at least can't it be abbreviated to 'wee-wee-wee' or something (like exclamation point became 'shriek').
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>And someone tell them on ER that it takes less time to say 'gun shot wound' than it does to say 'gee-ess-double-u'
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>CSI have got it right - GSR for 'gunshot residue'.
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>Anyone else with similar gripes?
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>There! I'm calm now! :-)

Why do the french (France not Montreal) pronounce Birthday like this : "Birzday"

I can't believe nobody told them how to pronounce TH.

That one gets on my nerves everytime I hear them say it.

But perhaps that's just me <g>