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Guy King wrote:
The message
from Andy Wade contains these words:

"Ect." (etc.) :~)

AAArgh. I knew someone who was most agrieved that her spell checker
didn't allow ect. I pointed out that this was 'cos it's etc but she
claimed she'd been spelling it like that for years so it must be right.

Of course it's ect. It's short for Et Ce Tera.

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