[Dragaera] Dzur stufff

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 8/11/06, Howard Brazee <howard at brazee.net> wrote:
> 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.

The only other place I've ever seen it is in diaries from the 19th century.

-Max Wilson

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