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>>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".

>>IvyMik+oe
Why?

>>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.)

>>IvyMik+Bg
Faster to say

A poor excuse for advancing illiteracy in both the linguistic and operational spaces. It's faster to say, but you've also made it harder for the lay person to understand. This sort of user hostility is a general problem in Linux; we are long since liberated from the days of unreliable teletype links, and the fetish for 3-letter contractions and abbreviated commands like cp and mv (instead of copy and move) does absolutely nothing to foster computer literacy.

>>anigbr+lh
Man you really harshed the mood on what I thought was just a cute little bit of old-timey unix lore.

>>IvyMik+si
Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I used to love such insider knowledge as well, but over time I've become convinced that it's an anti-pattern that drives away more people than it attracts.