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I have been watching Linus Tech Tips for a while now and am confused about their pronunciation of links/URLs. When they make an advertisement, they vary between two different pronunciations. Let me show you using the example of foo.com/bar:

  1. foo dot com slash bar
  2. foo dot com forward(s) slash bar

I am not sure whether they say it with or without s since it always melts with the s of the slash

My question now is: Is there a difference between these pronunciations or do they both mean exactly the same thing?

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    There's no s -- it's "forward slash": "/", as opposed to a "backslash": "". HTH. – Kris Feb 03 '20 at 12:16
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    If I type such an address using *backslashes, my Brave browser (Chrome clone) silently switches them to forward slashes* anyway, so it's pretty much irrelevant whether I'm told and make the distinction between *forward* and *back* here. But as a Brit, I'm quite happy to assume the (optional) trailing *s* in *forwards slash* (which I'll sometimes articulate myself, with no particular guiding principle as regards when I do it). – FumbleFingers Feb 03 '20 at 12:33
  • @FumbleFingers Your browser might do that, but it's not necessarily something that other browsers should or actually do. – CJ Dennis Feb 03 '20 at 12:40
  • Related (duplicate?) - Forward vs Forwards – FumbleFingers Feb 03 '20 at 12:41
  • @CJ Dennis : Those are just technical details. Plus so far as I'm aware, all URL's take the same form regardless of language, so such details aren't specifically relevant to *English. To my mind, the only thing that might* be relevant is the status of that optional *s* in *forwards slash* (which Webster taught Americans was a "corruption", but Brits never took that on board). – FumbleFingers Feb 03 '20 at 12:43

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