[Dragaera] Dzur stufff

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Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> 
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>On 12:20 AM Davdi Silverrock wrote:
>>  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".
>
>I expect that's a literary pun.    I tried looking it up in on-line 
>dictionaries without success, so those of us with Latin impaired 
>vocabularies didn't have a clue.   This happens, I expect I got less 
>than half of Ulysses.    I just didn't expect it in a Vlad novel where 
>they aren't speaking English/Latin anyway.

To me, this looks more like the typesetters choice than the author's... 
But you'd have to ask Steve about that to know for sure.

Majikjon