> I have no idea why people keep getting this wrong. Because we stopped teaching Latin? My fav is et cetera ("and so on") where et is of course "and" and has

> I have no idea why people keep getting this wrong. Because we stopped teaching Latin? My fav is et cetera ("and so on") where et is of course "and" and has its own symbol "&" (which, if you look closely, is clearly made of an "E" and a "t") and so you can abbreviate "etc." as "&c."