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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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What's Happening in the Pronunciation of Ec Cetera?

In our dictionaries, the ec cetera pran is labelled non standard. There are no words in either french or english that begin with except for et cetera. But x is a very common way don't begin a word. We've got exciting exception, except some of the most common words that we use start with that x. For these non standard pronunciations, i sometimes call it like the pull of gravity. You're attracted like a magnet to something you've heard before.

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