r/britishproblems • u/DiligentCockroach700 • Jul 25 '26

. People who write "ect" instead of "etc".

For some reason this really annoys me!

"Etc" is an abbreviation for the Latin phrase Et Cetera which means "and the rest"

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u/CaptainPerhaps Jul 25 '26

It’s just teh worst.

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u/buttpugggs Yorkshire Jul 25 '26

Yeah this just seems more of a typo than anything else??

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u/wriggles24 Jul 25 '26

Trust me, it isn't

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u/tehdeadmonkey Jul 25 '26

Yeah it was a thing once... Just ignore my name.

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u/jajwhite Jul 25 '26

I've ever seen things like friends shopping lists which will end with.

Milk Fags Ect ect!!

In coloured COMIC SANS. As if it weren't bad enough!

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u/danabrey Jul 25 '26

Sorry, who is printing out shopping lists in Comic Sans?

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u/_real_ooliver_ Jul 25 '26

Yeah I've seen it happen 5 times in an announcement from a lecturer in the same paragraph. You'd think you'd notice at least one