Roger Searle wrote:
> The one that got me the first time I heard someone say it, and still
> does, is the folder /etc.  I had always imagined it pronounced as eee
> tea see, and is how it still is in my head.  Hearing it as "etcetera"
> is just wrong, to my ear!
More than twenty years ago, my operating systems professor pronounced it
'et-see'. I found it grating at first, but it's so much shorter than
"etcetera", and I found myself picking it up. Now, it sounds just as
normal as 'grep', 'awk', 'sed', and 'sudo'.

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