Could be. The frequency is such that it could be dyslexics. It's not all the time, but it's a steady rate of incidence.
I think in the 90's it was just people repeating a pattern they learned from Windows/DOS.
It used to grate on my nerves to hear people say, e.g. "H T T P colon backslash backslash yahoo dot com".
But I think they always typed forward slash, like they knew the correct slash to use based on the context, but somehow always spoke it in DOSish.
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I think in the 90's it was just people repeating a pattern they learned from Windows/DOS.
It used to grate on my nerves to hear people say, e.g. "H T T P colon backslash backslash yahoo dot com".
But I think they always typed forward slash, like they knew the correct slash to use based on the context, but somehow always spoke it in DOSish.