Editing Slash (punctuation) (section)

===Currency===
{{main|Shilling}}
[[File:038 35 Kisoro, 2000 constructed under swTws Project (7928190604).jpg|thumb|Sign in [[Kisoro]] with prices in [[Ugandan shilling]]s; note the use of the '/=' notation.]]
The slash (as the "shilling mark" or "solidus")<ref name="Fowler solidus">{{Cite dictionary |last=Fowler |first=Francis George |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxforddic00fowlrich/page/829/mode/1up |title=The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English |entry=solidus |date=1917 |page=829 |via=Internet Archive |quote='''sǒ·lidus''', n. (pl. -di). (Hist.) gold coin introduced by Roman Emperor Constantine; (only in abbr. ''s.'') shilling(s), as 7s. 6d., £1 1s.; the shilling line (for ſ or long s) as in 7/6. [LL use of L {{small|SOLID}}us]}}</ref> was an abbreviation for the [[shilling]], a former [[coin]] of the United Kingdom and [[Commonwealth of Nations|its former colonies]]. Before the [[Decimal Day|decimalisation of currency in Britain]], its currency abbreviations (collectively [[£sd]]) represented their [[Latin]] names, derived from a [[French livre|medieval French modification]] of the late [[Ancient Roman units of measurement#Mass and coins|Roman libra]], [[solidus (coin)|solidus]], and [[denarius]].<ref>{{cite journal |title=Money in Shakespeare |last=Ojima |first=Fumita |publisher=[[Toyo University]] Press |issue=63 |journal=Journal of Business Administration |oclc=835683007 |page=113 |date=November 2004 |url=http://www.toyo.ac.jp/uploaded/attachment/2890.pdf |issn=0286-6439 |access-date=10 June 2014 |url-status=live |archive-date=10 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140610101123/http://www.toyo.ac.jp/uploaded/attachment/2890.pdf}} See also [[Carolingian monetary system]].</ref> Thus, one [[penny]] less than two [[pound sterling|pounds]] was written {{nowrap|£1 19s 11d}} or {{nowrap|£1 19ſ 11d.}} During the period when [[English orthography]] included the [[long s]], {{char|ſ}} or ''{{serif|{{char|ſ}}}}'', (abbreviating ''shilling'') the ſ came to be written as a single slash.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Chicago Manual of Style]] |edition=13th |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |date=1982 |page=676}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=[[Scientific Style and Format]]: The CBE Manual for Authors, Editors, and Publishers |date=1994 |page=65 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |bibcode=1994ssfc.book.....S}}</ref> The d. might be omitted, and "2ſ6" ("two shillings and sixpence") became simplified as 2/6.<ref name="Fowler solidus" /> Amounts in full pounds, shillings and pence could be written in many different ways, for example: £1 9s 6d, £1.9.6, £1-9-6, and even £1/9/6d (with a slash used ''also'' to separate pounds and shillings).<ref>{{cite web |publisher=University of Nottingham |title=Manuscripts and special Collections: Money |url=https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/weightsandmeasures/money.aspx |access-date=28 November 2021 |archive-date=12 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312080731/http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/manuscriptsandspecialcollections/researchguidance/weightsandmeasures/money.aspx |url-status=live}}</ref> The same style was also used under the [[British Raj]] and early independent India for the predecimalization [[Indian rupee|rupee]]/[[Indian anna|anna]]/[[Indian pie|pie]] system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3367.pdf |date=7 October 2007 |archive-date=9 May 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509233828/http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3367.pdf |url-status=live |title=Proposal to Encode North Indic Number Forms in ISO/IEC 10646 |last=Pandey |first=Anshuman |publisher=[[University of Michigan]] |page=8}}</ref>

In five East African countries ([[Kenya]], [[Tanzania]], [[Uganda]], [[Somalia]], and the ''de facto'' country of [[Somaliland]]), where the national currencies are denominated in shillings, the [[decimal separator]] is a slash mark (e.g., {{shilingi|2|50}}). Where the minor unit is zero, an [[equals sign]] is used (e.g., 5/=).