The trouble with dot ack is that the listener doesn't know if it is ac, ak or ack. As the usual reason to vocalise addresses is to give them to others the risk of it being mis-translated is too great to take chances. It's fine with well known parts like dot com, but most others need spelling out for reliability.
Hmm. Point taken. I suppose I'd only ever used it with other UK academics - who should know what domain they're on. However, people say dot gov for government sites. Any chance of mixing that up with dot guv?
It is to me. 'mericans I work with like to pronounce lots of things that we tend to spell out here, even if they don't really work.
I've always read that as "slash et cetera".
Fair enough, but what about if you have to say it to somebody else? I appreciate that isn't too common outside of eye-tee!
The only instance of having to say it is to tell somebody else what to type on the command line - so in that case you have to (informally) agree on a communications convention anyway. Under those circumstances it is likely to be "slash ee tee see".
slash-em-en-tee, the others I tend to pronounce as you do.
The problem with "slash mount" is that unless the listener knows that means "/mnt", he is likely to assume "/mount". These things are all very well in an environment where you are sure everyone is on the same page, otherwise one needs to exercise caution.
Indeed - some systems have both /mnt and /mount.
In which case I would spell out m n t.