1310: Stroke as a New Conjunction Jul 12, 2018

If you say the Word Facts post about 'slash', you would know that it it extremely rare to find examples of new conjunctions simply because there are only so many ways they can be used, but it is possible. In addition to 'slash' as a conjunction which has same effect as 'and' but tends to connect less related ideas, there is also the conjunction 'stroke' which is also relatively new, only from the last decade or so. This tends to be used in similar ways to 'slash', though it may be more common to connect words, not on a clausal level. It is also more popular in the United Kingdom, as opposed to 'slash' which is more common in the US. As you may have guessed, both of these new conjunctions come from the punctuation mark: /, which does go by several different names.