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Comment by NetOpWibby

3 days ago

Haha! Happy to spread awareness! I saw it being used somewhere several years ago and loved it.

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WorldMaker  3 days ago

The et in etc (et cetera) being Latin "and" (in essentially "and so forth"). The ampersand is said to have started as a very stylized "E" and "t" merged together, so it does have an interesting historic appropriateness in &c.

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