[Dragaera] Dzur stufff
Davdi Silverrock
davdisil at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 23:20:45 PDT 2006
On 8/7/06, Johne Cook wrote:
>
> &c? I take it that is the equivalent to "and so forth"?
>
Mmm. You've heard of "etc."?
Word nerd alert: "et" is latin for "and". The character "&" was
originally a stylized combination of the letters "et". The name of
the character, "ampersand", was originally meant to be "and, /per se/
and".
Thus, "&c" is exactly equivalent to "etc".
See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampersand
Et cetera, et cetera.
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