Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Will someone please enlighten me?

This may be random, but it's really bugging me...

Why is it that people type ect instead of etc as an abbreviation for et cetera? It seems like every time I turn around, I see it...in emails, on blogs, I think I've even seen it in a newspaper one time. So..I'm not even talking about grammatically challenged people...I'm talking about intelligent people, several of whom are writers.

Am I missing something??

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your being anal or anil or anail ect etc etc

Brian said...

There are so many grammatical things that bug me too. Like using prepositions to end a phrase, or asking "can" instead of "will" when you want permission, etc.