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[[File:Slash.png|thumb|500px|[[Virgule Hudson]] yesterday.]]
{{Quote|"O, whoreson [[slash]]! Thou unnecessary character!"
::Shakespeare, ''As You Lick It'', I, iii<ref>The false reference was too good to pass up — for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar, as it were. But assiduous readers will realise this is not comedy. It is ''tragedy''. The correct reference is, of course, ''King Edward Lear'', II, ii. </ref>}} 

The [[slash]] ( [[/]] ), also known as the '''virgule''', has several uses, most of which (sayeth the [http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/slash. punctuation guide]) one should avoid in formal writing.

Never use it when you mean “[[or]]”.  If you need to convey that [[conjunction]], ''use it'': It doesn’t take up much space and no-one will mind. Certainly don’t use it when you mean “[[as the case may be]]”.

On the subject of [[conjunction]]s, never, ever, ''ever'' use the expression “[[and/or]]”, much less “[[and, as the case may be, or]]”.

There’s just one [[Slash]] who looks good in public, and he’s in [http://images.musictimes.com/data/images/full/8330/slash-bridgestone-super-bowl-xlv-halftime-show.jpg Guns ’n’ Roses]. (The Guns ’N’ Roses axeman, real name [[Virgule Hudson]], first acquired the nickname by which {{sex|he}} later became world-famous, on account of his over-use of the [[virgule]] in his freshman year at Stamford Law School).<ref>Like so much in this ridiculous wiki, this is not true.</ref>

Odd spot: the charming American Gothic church in the ''November Rain'' video, right, was a fake, made out of the cardboard on the day. It is therefore quite easy to recreate this shot, in your local park. All you need is some cardboard, sticky tape, a silly wig and hat, and a drone with a go-pro (or in my case, an obedient child with an cameraphone on a bicycle).

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*[[Plain English]]
*[[And/or]]
*[http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/slash.html The Punctuation Guide]

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