Check out Try to Avoid Virgules by rogersgeorge. Here is an excerpt:
Sorry for the pretentiousism—I thought using “virgule” might make the headline more interesting. A virgule is a slash, (also unnecessarily called a forward slash.)
Most of the time when people use a slash, it’s because they don’t want to have to think and actually choose a word, so they…
The full article is available here.
