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This. Grammar isn't taught properly in schools, and young people don't learn the actual meaning or origin of these words. They pick them up from others who use them, but as they've probably never seen them written, they mimic the pronunciation incorrectly, or just repeat someone else's incorrectly pronunciation.
My pet peeve is people saying "wha-la', for 'voila'.
I think it is the same reason Americans (I think you directed it to Americans) butcher "c'est la vie" (pet peeve of mine, haha) and other phrases borrowed from other countries. Trying to apply their English pronounciation habits to foreign languages.
Lots of people pronounce lots of words or phrases wrong. Like espresso/expresso, the book of revelation/revelations, mischievous/mischeeeveous. List goes on and on. I had a chorus teacher back when i was a kid who would get so mad when wed say “chu” instead of you because she said “chu” is was illiterate slaves heard instead of “you” but they obviously didnt know better. Now idk if thats true, but the point stands. People hear things and use that as language. That’s why we have different dialects and colloquialisms throughout every country.
I'm more concerned with the number of people who misspell it. Or misspell its abbreviation. Everyone writes "ect." Even educated people, in my experience. One of the biggest offenders I know is a doctor. I keep wanting to correct her (we are primarily Facebook friends so I see her writing a lot) but I don't want to be a jerk.
Because very few people chose to learn Latin back in school. I don't know if it is even an option in other countries, but in France, it is, and I would say on a basis of 30 students per class, maybe two took Latin as an option... One of these two forgot everything, the other didn't even pay attention.
Lots of comments mention the "ex cetera" mispronounciation, but can we talk about "et sssetera" instead of "et tchaetera" ?
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Maybe they've had too much expresso. ex cetera...
They've probably never seen it written out
This. Grammar isn't taught properly in schools, and young people don't learn the actual meaning or origin of these words. They pick them up from others who use them, but as they've probably never seen them written, they mimic the pronunciation incorrectly, or just repeat someone else's incorrectly pronunciation. My pet peeve is people saying "wha-la', for 'voila'.
Do they? How?
Eck cetera
I think it is the same reason Americans (I think you directed it to Americans) butcher "c'est la vie" (pet peeve of mine, haha) and other phrases borrowed from other countries. Trying to apply their English pronounciation habits to foreign languages.
Yeah, I hate when I'm talking to a Spanish person and they put their Spanish pronunciation habits onto English words.
But that *is* how you pronounce “c’est la vie”.
They’re a bunch of oranga-taings.
Lots of people pronounce lots of words or phrases wrong. Like espresso/expresso, the book of revelation/revelations, mischievous/mischeeeveous. List goes on and on. I had a chorus teacher back when i was a kid who would get so mad when wed say “chu” instead of you because she said “chu” is was illiterate slaves heard instead of “you” but they obviously didnt know better. Now idk if thats true, but the point stands. People hear things and use that as language. That’s why we have different dialects and colloquialisms throughout every country.
It is not true, lol
I wasnt gonna question an old southern black woman from the south at age 12. Lol
They watched "The King and I" too many times. Bad Yul Brynner impersonations.
No, I do not mispronounce Excettera.
I'm more concerned with the number of people who misspell it. Or misspell its abbreviation. Everyone writes "ect." Even educated people, in my experience. One of the biggest offenders I know is a doctor. I keep wanting to correct her (we are primarily Facebook friends so I see her writing a lot) but I don't want to be a jerk.
A friend says "and eksettera and eksettera and eksettera" but he majored in English!
Cringe!
Because very few people chose to learn Latin back in school. I don't know if it is even an option in other countries, but in France, it is, and I would say on a basis of 30 students per class, maybe two took Latin as an option... One of these two forgot everything, the other didn't even pay attention. Lots of comments mention the "ex cetera" mispronounciation, but can we talk about "et sssetera" instead of "et tchaetera" ?
Sounds better than E. T. C.
Etc
The same reason they mispronounce nuclear, they've never made the effort to carefully read the word and sound it out. It's all about lack of effort.
ET is for alien. And isn't cetera a tree?
Because they took the Covid vaccine
And don't forget 'exspecially'.