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How do you spell etc?

Is it one of those abbreviations that doesn't extend? I've always wanted to know.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It is et cetera, which is Latin for "and so on and so forth." Just remember that it's two words, because you'll look uneducated if you spell it as one like some of the people above. :)

  • JJ
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Et cetera ~ literally "and the rest". Latin adjectives can be masculine, feminine or neuter: in the singular, this gives ceterus, --a, --um; but the word was nearly always used in the plural: ceteri, --ae, --a, so the final "a" in cetera marks the word as neuter plural (although the feminine singular is the same).

    Source(s): Latin O-level!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Okay, I am sure that a gazillion people have already answered t his question but I still want to answer it becaues I just learned how to spell "etc.". I had always thought that was just how you spell it but then I was reading the other day (yesterday, actually) and I saw it spelled:

    et cetera

    There you have it.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    etcetera. It extends ;-) Now, lol on the other hand, no one uses that for saying that they are laughing, so who knows if that actually extends to laugh out loud...

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  • 1 decade ago

    Etcetera

    See the webpage below for more info on the word.

  • ?????
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    etcetera means and so forth: continuing in the same way

  • 1 decade ago

    et cetera it means and so on. (also etcetera)

  • Maggz
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    et cetera

  • 1 decade ago

    et cetera

  • 1 decade ago

    etcetera

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