Ect

[Anoisagusaris]

Why do so many MN posters use ect for etc?? It doesn’t even make sense sound wise. This is the only place I’ve ever seen it .

Typo?

Because some people don't know the full word I expect. Surely that's the most obvious answer for you? 🤷‍♀️

It's not just Mumsnet though, it's all over the internet along with other misspellings.

It really annoys me!!

I imagine they are spelling it phonetically. Why do some mumsnetters lack imagination ?

I think some people think it's pronounced eckcetera. So ect. makes more sense if you think that.

@SummerHouse

I think some people think it's pronounced eckcetera. So ect. makes more sense if you think that.

Exactly. I don't know why the OP is pretending not to realise that.

@AnnUumellmahaye

I imagine they are spelling it phonetically. Why do some mumsnetters lack imagination ?

But that isn’t how you would spell it phonetically so you’d need quite a lot of information to think that.

But it’s not correct phonetically?? The word is etcetera.

Imagination! Not information
And as that shows, it is more likely to be autocorrect.

I’m not pretending not to know something! You don’t say ec-cetera. It’s et-cetera. That’s why I am asking!

@Anoisagusaris

I’m not pretending not to know something! You don’t say ec-cetera. It’s et-cetera. That’s why I am asking!

Well clearly some people do say ec-cetera don't they?

And that's because they don't know the correct word 🤦‍♀️

Are you familiar with different regional accents ?
Where I'm from, it would be pronounced Eck -cetera.

Of course I’m familiar with regional accents. I’m not even British so I know all about varying accents. Just didn’t realise some people also mispronounce the word.

@AnnUumellmahaye

Are you familiar with different regional accents ? Where I'm from, it would be pronounced Eck -cetera.

Or perhaps familiar with foreign people, or people who simply haven't had a very good education?

When I say it out loud in my accent, it does sound slightly more like ec-cetera, rather than etcetera. I would imagine a lot of people would not have seen the full word written out, the abbreviation is used a lot more. Could also be a spell checker issue, whenever I type etc, my tablet always autocorrects to rtf, other devices might correct to ect for some random reason.

Mainly, why does it matter? Do you understand what they mean? Great. Job of communication accomplished!

I like &c.

Ah, Yul Brynner's 'Et cetera ... et cetera ... et cetera!'

@VyeBrator I am a foreign person 🤣

I agree with you. It's one of many things where I find it hard to understand how people think that's really what it should be. (See, also, loose instead of lose.)

@Anoisagusaris

Of course I’m familiar with regional accents. I’m not even British so I know all about varying accents. Just didn’t realise some people also mispronounce the word.

How can you possibly think words aren't mispronounced sometimes?

@Anoisagusaris

Why do so many MN posters use ect for etc?? It doesn’t even make sense sound wise. This is the only place I’ve ever seen it .

It's one of the most common English speaking errors. It's two words btw et cetera.

Loads of people say it ec cetera. I'd say it's probably more common than the correct word.

[quote Anoisagusaris]@VyeBrator I am a foreign person 🤣[/quote]
In that case you're even less imaginative.

Although I'm guessing this is just a fake wide-eye post anyway as that'd make more sense.

Of course, if we're going to be totally pedantic about it, maybe we should start s campaign for it to be pronounced in the correct Latin way?
Would that be less irritating, OP?