It's a standard character, it needs a name, the standard name for "\" is backslash. I'm okay with that. The normal and widespread name for "/" is "slash", and I

It's a standard character, it needs a name, the standard name for "\" is backslash. I'm okay with that. The normal and widespread name for "/" is "slash", and I'm fine with that too. Yes, there are people who get things wrong on the internet. Just gently correct them and move on. I don't think trying to change to other terms like solidus and reverse solidis are going to make it any better. And I like :// being in URLs. It makes them incredibly easy to disambiguate them from anything else.