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| Thread ID: 145822 | 2018-02-04 03:03:00 | What does it mean? | Roscoe (6288) | PC World Chat |
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| 1445956 | 2018-02-04 03:03:00 | I am reading a book at present where the use of "&c" is perplexing me. It says, in part, "soldiers who were allegedly spreading all sorts of lying reports about attacks from the natives, the cheapness of bread at Auckland &c." Is there anyone out there who can tell me what it means? |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1445957 | 2018-02-04 03:44:00 | A shortened form of the Latin et cetera | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1445958 | 2018-02-04 03:54:00 | Thank you, Terry. It sounded something like that but I was not certain. Much appreciated. |
Roscoe (6288) | ||
| 1445959 | 2018-02-04 04:43:00 | I am reading a book at present where the use of "&c" is perplexing me. ? God really? The editor should be shot. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1445960 | 2018-02-04 04:53:00 | God really? The editor should be shot. Depends on when the original book was written, Latin phrases and abbreviations were popular in the late 1800s and early 1900's among the more self educated, it sorted of elevated them. H G Wells 'Kips' novel illustrates this very well, where an uneducated bloke is taken under the wings of a pair of aspiring middle class snobs who are full of pretensions and the popular upper class sayings of the day. |
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