Aatube, 6 months ago

@trixter but it is et-ceh-tera according to my dictionary... Why would it be etceetera? Where'd you get that from?

trixter, 6 months ago

@Aatube Not et-cee-tera, just et-cee! Like the person who originally named it meant for it to be "etcetera" but other people came along and didn't know what "etcetera" was so they just read it literally as "etc".

Aatube, 6 months ago

@trixter To know whoever "named" it you have to go back to prehistory and find whoever invented Latin. No modern person has ever "named" it. In Latin, it's pronounced "et-kee-tera" usually or "et-tsee-tera" if you're a priest. When it was borrowed into English, they "corrected" the pronunciation to "et-ceh-tera". Nowhere can I find a source that says it's pronounced et-cee.

trixter, 6 months ago

@Aatube I mean specifically in the context of the /etc directory in a Linux installation. I'm sorry if that's not clear! I certainly agree that calling it "et-cee" is incorrect but that seems to be what they call that directory. It was in a training course I was doing and it's been confirmed by other Linux folks when I've brought it up.

Aatube, 6 months ago

@trixter Hmm... According to https://serverfault.com/questions/137328/whats-the-most-widely-used-pronunciation-of-the-unix-etc-directory and https://serverfault.com/questions/471161/history-of-the-etc-directory , the creator of it just says "it's et cetera" and the pronunciation varies.