Will 'ect.' become an acceptable spelling of 'etc.'? And if it does, will that be unexplainable or merely inexplicable?
Word Matters
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Et Cetera
Most words in english still feel foreinto is my native language. E c t is a variant spelling of the abbreviation for et cetera. F scott fitzgerald apparently used it in his writing. No kitting eh, published or unpublished. Not in his published writing, except that it just means no editor was correcting him.
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