Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
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Hi, English isn't my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/... Back then I was like: "What tf does 'w slash' stand for?" And when I found out I was like "How, why, and is it any intuitive?" But I never dared to ask that until now
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And that presumably is drawn as a fish in some language?
"ἰχθύς" is the ancient greek word for "fish" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%99%CE%A7%CE%98%CE%A5%CE%A3
I don't see that word used in their comment?
click on the link pls
Oh... I see, so it's the word for fish.
It would be like if we had an acronym F.I.S.H. and some people got cute and drew a 🐟 instead of writing F.I.S.H.