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1. IvyMik+oe[view] [source] 2013-06-26 07:31:22
>>alexho+(OP)
Not enough people know this, but when you say "etc" out loud in reference to the directory, it is supposed to sound like "etsy".

I expect there will be people who reply to this comment to argue it should be "E-T-C" or "Et Cetera". You can ignore those people; they probably say "exclamation mark" instead of "bang".

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2. oneeye+Mf[view] [source] 2013-06-26 08:00:20
>>IvyMik+oe
Why?
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3. IvyMik+Bg[view] [source] 2013-06-26 08:21:50
>>oneeye+Mf
Faster to say, and that's how I learned it in 1992.

This is one of those "jif" v. "gif" holy war issues. (Maybe "etc" is a minor skirmish rather than a full blown war.)

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