Etc and ect

[sesquipedalian]

For the umpteenth time this morning, I have read a thread where a poster uses “ect” instead of “etc”. Would these people actually say “ec cetera” IRL? Do they not know that “etc” is an abbreviation of et cetera? I never saw this until I came onto Mumsnet, and I just find it….a bit odd. I must be getting old!

'Etc' is an abbreviation for 'et cetera', which means 'and other things'. Perhaps just use 'and so on' instead. We don't have to use Latin tags.

I think I meant to write that and speel chuck thought it knew best 🤦‍♂️

No matter how much one checks, something always slips past.

'Loose' and 'lose' are my bugbears at the moment.

😂

Of course we dont but if someone does they should spell correctly, no ones saying etc is compulsory

What about “nucular”?

This is really common but I always assumed it was a typo... Perhaps being too generous.

Gapping instead of gaping, scrapping instead of scraping, a colleague who seems to think eg and ie are interchangeable - ect is the least of my pedantic bugbears. It’s certainly not the worse one I see. Autocorrect suggests etc, though, so presumably some of ect-ers think they know better 🤷‍♀️

Per say and on route are also on my list.

It's not etc OP it's 'etc.' With a dot.

Percy? Who is Percy? 🤣

*obscure Billy Connolly reference.

Speel chuck really gets confused if a dot is used though 🤦‍♂️

Well, de gustibus non est disputandum.

Yep!

It's three letters! Not tricky

I brought a house also gives me the rage