ect

[notnowImreading]

FFS.
When you ask the person who types ect what it says, they say et cetera - it's not that they don't know. It just doesn't make sense to write it like that. I know that this is not a problem on the scale of, say, third world debt.

[ElphabaTheGreen]

In my experience, the cretins people who write 'ect' are the same ones who say 'exet-ra'.

[queenofthepirates]

I believe the solution is subliminal advertising in main stream TV programmes. Flash up ETC every few minutes and see if we can correct the problem.

Personally I believe in public flogging for most commonly made grammatical mistakes so you're preaching to the right audience here.