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Does 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 sa
by tomjakubowski 10y ago
Does 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).