OT: Well… I was just looking at Lekdevil.NL’s post above and noticed that he’d taken the time to spell out the word etcetera. Personally I thought this word may have come from the French language and been something like et-cet-era, but I’m still unsure. So I looked it up in a dictionary that I have.
It gave me this :
Noun: etcetera
Adverb: etcetera
- 1. Continuing in the same way
I looked down at the “Types of” tab, and clicked it and there was a word there called “Whatchamacallit”.
So then I decided to search google for it.
The dictionary’s definition by the way was:
Noun: Whatchamacallit
- 1. Miscellaneous unspecified artifacts
Anyway, from google I found this site:
http://www.whatchamacallit.scriptmania.com/
(He mentions somewhere that he got loads of traffic from google one day so he might want some more, I don’t know. But that’s why this link is here)
Then I scrolled down to the bottom and found the “How well can you do?” link, which links to:
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/Bush-Palpatine.html
You’re meant to guess who said what quote…
Interesting the tenuous links (pardon the pun) we sometimes have isn’t it? (Meaning that he stumbled upon his linked site, and I stumbled upon his)
So, where does the word etcetera come from? is it French?