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.

@LoveGrooveDanceParty

WTF are the 20% of people who think YABU??

They will be the posters like me who: Spend a lot of time on Pedants' Corner chatting about linguistics and shit. Don't see why posters whose English may not be perfect should feel humiliated by some twat who needs to look Dunning-Kruger up and learn how to use punctuation before they start on other people. Has lost count how many times a week this type of smug, superior thread is started (but looks forward immensely to pointing out that hubris does indeed lead to hamartia )

Disinterested! It does not mean ‘not interested’. That is UNinterested.
Disinterested means impartial.

And all the posters asking us to ‘bare with me’ do make me wince.

Off of, is another that gets the steam escaping from under my Grumpy Old Pedant hat.

@PyjamaMamma, Which brings me to the question: is it meant to be pronounced ekcetera? I come from a Romance language speaking country and we pronounce it as written, with a ‘t’ but it made me wonder.

it is short for et cetera. not sure how that could ever be eks-etera

The english pronunciation is et SET-uh-ra

The latin pronunciation is et KeT-err-a

Don’t even get me started on gotten.

It was a Private Eye thing, wasn't it?

As somebody who used to actually deliver ECT, I am always momentarily thrown when I see ect instead of etc!

Mine is really petty... but

"huggee" is not a valid representation of an emphasised "huge"

Doubling the magic-e makes it a separate syllable; and doubling the consonant makes the preceding vowel short. Hence "huggee" is pronounced to rhyme with "dougie"

If you want to imply a huge huge, spell it hhhhhhuuuuuge

I have been browsing Ebay for sofas and keep seeing ‘Chase Lounge’ instead of ‘Chaise Longue’.

@Goawaymorningsickeness

Don’t even get me started on gotten.

You don't like the original English verb form? Taken over to America by the first settlers who didn't then allow it to be modified over time? Why?

@KirstenBlest I heard so many people pronouncing it ekcetera that it made me question my own pronunciation.

I see this sort of thing everyday.

I’m sure I’ll make many errors just writing this post, but my pet peeve is ‘none’ when the writer means ‘non’.

@Chipsinthewoods

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

It's more than that though.

Like people started saying somethink.

It's not cute, cool or clever. Damn annoying.

I feel soooo awful about this, but what makes me LOL is when someone has died, and a 'tribute post' gets put on facebook with 'U shud not ov bin taken.' And 'you are now with the angles.'

I'm pretty good at spelling and agree with all if these but if I see the word resus (in the medical setting) my brain always follows with monkey though I know it's wrong.

"Like people started saying somethink"

You don't like incorrect pronunciation but don't have issues with incorrect syntax?

@AleynEivlys

I'm mortified that anyone would write ect. instead of etc.

(MORTIFIED MEANS VERY EMBARRASSED OR ASHAMED. IT DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE SHOCKED!!!! )

Sky news interviewed a single mum about the electricity price rises last week. She was asked how she felt about it and she said very gravely that she was mortified. I thought to myself " bet she's a mumsnetter". I'd be mortified if I made that mistake on live TV

@PyjamaMamma, a lot of people don't consider what the words they are saying mean, so you get things like 'high rate' for irate or 'doggy dog' for dog-eat-dog, or bare for bear.

et cetera's meaning in Latin is "and so forth". Et cetera is often abbreviated to &c

Don't question your own pronunciation - if you get the odd word wrong and people understand you that's fine. If they laugh at you, then they are the one with a problem not you.

People who speak English as a second language often have far better english than those who have it as their mother tongue

@Geamhradh

"Like people started saying somethink"

You don't like incorrect pronunciation but don't have issues with incorrect syntax?

?

@LittleDandelionClock

I feel soooo awful about this, but what makes me LOL is when someone has died, and a 'tribute post' gets put on facebook with 'U shud not ov bin taken.' And 'you are now with the angles.'

😂😂😂

How about 'of' instead of 'have' in 'would of', 'should of'?

I can spell but sometimes typing on my phone leads to errors.

Is no one else horrified by “yay” or nay???

This could be because feint is used to describe a particular type of line on ruled paper.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruled_paper

I keep seeing sentences with verbs missed out which really annoy me, e.g. “it needs washed” “he needs fed” - it looks and sounds so wrong!