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Americans often say "ect" (spelled out †). As a Dutch person (when talking in Dutch we say this as "etc" (eat tea sea) or "et cetera") it is very hard for me to
by voidz 10y ago
Americans often say "ect" (spelled out †). As a Dutch person (when talking in Dutch we say this as "etc" (eat tea sea) or "et cetera") it is very hard for me to not do the lord's work and correct them. And I guess it works if you abbreviate it as Et CeTera.
† edited to add that it's spelled out
- brennen 10y agoI'm pretty sure I have never encountered "ect" from any person of any nationality.
- voidz 10y agoI believe it's a common mispronounciation, but I have come across this quite often.
- jonathankoren 10y agoI've lived my whole life in the United States, lived I two very different and distance parts, traveled around the country. I've never heard this. like ever.
- voidz 10y agoOk, so our experiences differ. Not a big deal.
- tunesmith 10y agoI've heard people say "ek cetera" quite a bit.
- filoeleven 10y agoI've always heard it pronounced incorrectly as "ek setra". And now I'm wondering if it's unusual to pronounce the last word with all three syllables, as I do...
- ahstro 10y agoIf you hate this as much as I do, don't listen to Sweet and Tender Hooligan by The Smiths. It's a great song, but the last minute or so is horror.
- brennen 10y agoYeah, true. To the point where I suppose it's basically standard in a bunch of regional dialects.
- Wildgoose 10y agoI have - and I distinctly remember doing it myself as a small child and being corrected by my teacher. (I'm English by the way).
- runjake 10y agoIt's a common misspelling in America, similar to incorrect uses of your vs you're.
- dragonwriter 10y agoI've never heard an American spell out "etc.", correctly or not, in conversation; I'm having trouble believing that doing so, much less a particular incorrect way of doing it, is common generally among "Americans", though there may be some narrower regional or other subculture in which it is common.
- solotronics 10y agoI am American and say "ee tee cee" for /etc.. but this could possibly be because I taught myself computer science online when I was a kid and so never heard people say many of the terms out loud.
- lobster_johnson 10y agoI've heard people pronounce it "eck cetera" many, many times, presumably because they've never actually seen the word in print. I've never heard anyone say "ect", which would imply that they've seen the word but can't read.
- tomjakubowski 10y agoDoes any other language pronounce "et cetera" with the "hard" C, as it would be said in Latin? Occasionally, you might encounter a Latin-speaking pedant who says "Kaizar" (this could also be a German :)) and "et ketera", but it isn't the norm in US English anyway.
- Anthony-G 10y agoI don't know Latin (aside from common phrases) but in many Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian) the ‘C’ is only hard when followed by ‘a’, ‘o’ or ‘u’ (referred to as broad vowels in Irish/Gaelic).
- bbctol 10y agoHow often is often? I've never seen that in my life.