We generally call these slashes rather than sloshes.

rbowen · rbowen · commit abedb7f2f5ed · 2004-12-31T21:03:18.000Z
git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@123821 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_rewrite.xml
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ URLs on the fly</description>
       <p>As of Apache 1.3.20, special characters in
       <em>TestString</em> and <em>Substitution</em> strings can be
       escaped (that is, treated as normal characters without their
-      usual special meaning) by prefixing them with a slosh ('\')
+      usual special meaning) by prefixing them with a slash ('\')
       character. In other words, you can include an actual
       dollar-sign character in a <em>Substitution</em> string by
       using '<code>\$</code>'; this keeps mod_rewrite from trying
