ect is not short for et cetera

[BlueMountainHusky]

It is etc. not bloody ect.

ECT is electroconvulsive therapy.

I have seen it on this web site literally hundreds of times this week alone.

It's like a contagious form of ignorance that is spreading like a plague.

Is it unreasonable to be driven nuts by the sheer number of people who think it's just ect.

If I don't come back, I have seen it again and my head has exploded.

With you all the way. Don't start me on "would of" ETC!

It would be sad if people had to pass a spelling and grammar test to post for advice on here

Ah I’ve not noticed that.

But I have noticed rediculous

I always assumed it was just a typo.

I've never seen it written ect urghhh. "We was" instead of we were really gets my goat.

I have never seen that, but if I did it would be a one off and I would assume a simply typo. 😕

You are defiantly right! 😆

Que is also queue unless you mean cue. In English, that is.

I've noticed that pacific problem

I found out the other day reading a Julia Donaldson book that I have been saying sea anenome instead of anemone all my life.

From 5 days ago www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4376823-Words-that-dont-exist-in-English

If I try to type e c t my phone automatically corrects it to eat. People who use that must've had to force their phones to remember the wrong spelling.

Could/should/would of does my head in too.

I was wandering the same thing

I occasionally used 'ect' as a joke because Molesworth used it. I was surprised that so many people still seemed to know this old joke - I'm naive.

Persay kills me. And I saw some massive misuse of fait accompli the other day.

Yanbu and

" Web site "instead of "website"

And asking questions without a ? at the end really bug me too!

PREACH SISTER

"I have seen it on this web site literally hundreds of times this week alone."

I think, in this thread about pedantry, you meant figuratively.

Unless, of course, you have counted every single ect and you counted 200 minimum..

I'm surprised people haven't seen it. I think it's similar to how literally is used and the incorrect version is now more common than the correct one. The dictionary even changed to include the new meaning of literally due to its popularity.

I think it's too widespread for the use to be eradicated. Its continued appearance probably only creates a sort of confirmation bias.

Can we use &c instead?

I'd never correct someone on a thread as that is dickish but seeing as this is a specific thread - it's bought not brought! Makes my toes crunch.

You bought the toy in the shop, you brought the toy to the party.

Urgh - and 'Well I done that...' 🤢

Add fir in place of for to that list…

@ButYouGottaHaveASkillJeff

I'd never correct someone on a thread as that is dickish but seeing as this is a specific thread - it's bought not brought! Makes my toes crunch.

You bought the toy in the shop, you brought the toy to the party.

Or took it maybe

Yep. Along with the use of ‘bring’ when ‘take’ is correct (see: ‘he said he’d bring me to my mums next week but now he’s changed his mind’).

Makes me shout ‘TAKE’ in the manner of Father Jack.

Yep
BRought is to BRing
And
Bought is to buy

What about lose and loose?

Advanced Search suggests over 100 instances of ect being used in the last 7 day period but possibly not more than 200. However, AS doesn't usually find every thread it should and I've never worked out why. So it could be literally hundreds I suppose!