On 2010-09-03, at 9:38 PM, Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar wrote:

> Brett,
> 
> Is this another instance of "slash," your example that Geoffrey Pullum did a nice piece on on Language Log?  
> See http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2584#more-2584.

That was the impetus. Later that night, I was reading and came across 'versus'. Right away I thought that's got to be the same.

Best,
Brett

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Brett Reynolds
English Language Centre
Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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