[Dragaera] Dzur- Possible spoilers (A question of editing)

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"Christopher Norehad" <topherian at gmail.com> 
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[Dragaera] Dzur- Possible spoilers (A question of editing)




>First time posting to this list.  I'm putting in 17 lines because I'm not
>sure about the spoiler content of my question.1
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>On page 17 of my copy of Dzur there is the following sentence:
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>"I still had all ten fingers, but let's &c."
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>I've noticed in several other of SKZB's books that small errors like this
>occur.  Is this something that just gets missed in the final copy?  Or is 
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>a case of some sort of error creeping in during the production process?
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>Topher

The ampersand (&) character is a stylized representation of the Latin word 
"et". 

Ergo, when we see &c, we can read this as "etc", which is short for "et 
cetera", Latin for "and soforth" (approximately). 

So, the &c is simply a stylistic alternative to etc.

Majikjon