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It's ETC not ECT

43 replies

Blueuggboots · 08/04/2024 21:08

It's ETC not ECT, short for et cetera....

Does my nut. Thank you.

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GentleButter · 08/04/2024 21:31

If you're invested in this, join me on the BOUGHT BROUGHT thread I'm about to create.

NerdWhoEatsMedlar · 08/04/2024 21:31

Maybe we should go back to &c

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 08/04/2024 21:29

Thank you!

It really needs to be said. Daily, if necessary

GentleButter · 08/04/2024 21:29

Oh God, I know.
I literally hate it.
Why oh why oh why do people put ect.?
It doesn't even make sense!
It's ET CETERA
So WHY would it be ect???
Oh God it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it!!!!
And another thing, no-one bothers to put a full stop af the end either, whether they spell if the wrong way or the right way!

IfYouSawwhatISee · 08/04/2024 21:28

I think in guilty of this and wouldn't have noticed, it's one of those identifying things however I don't want to do, so thank you!

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2024 21:26

EveryOtherNameTaken · 08/04/2024 21:19

Yep!!! You'd think people would see it looks wrong when they put ect.

I think that's the issue. So many people write it incorrectly that the correct version looks wrong to the writer.

Chatonette · 08/04/2024 21:26

Yaaaaaaaas

WhatFlavourIsIt · 08/04/2024 21:25

Yep, it is repeated.frequently. who gives a shit. You know what the poster means when they write it either way.

EveryOtherNameTaken · 08/04/2024 21:19

Yep!!! You'd think people would see it looks wrong when they put ect.

TrickorTreacle · 08/04/2024 21:19

ECT is a form of electric shock therapy used in mental health. Very different from et cetera!

Original poster
Blueuggboots · 08/04/2024 21:18

WhatFlavourIsIt · 08/04/2024 21:16

Really, we're doing this again?. Is a monthly PSA type thing?

I don't know, but I've noticed it a lot over the last few days.
Apologies if you feel it's repeated but I hate it.

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Melroses · 08/04/2024 21:17

That would be ECS then. 🤔

WhatFlavourIsIt · 08/04/2024 21:16

Really, we're doing this again?. Is a monthly PSA type thing?

MrsTerryPratchett · 08/04/2024 21:16

There's Pedants' Corner on MN where I go to be really annoyed about things like this.

TBF in my Saaf Laandon whine, I was taught 'ecsetra' so there is some logic.

JellyIegs · 08/04/2024 21:14

Someone had to say it

Iamtheoneinten · 08/04/2024 21:13

As any fule kno, who’s seen The King and I…

Mummame2222 · 08/04/2024 21:10

OMG! I know!!

Bluevelvetsofa · 08/04/2024 21:10

Yep!