Archive for August 3, 1998

EE: And So On (Reader Comments and Addenda)

Mea culpa. There were several goofs, misstatements, omissions, and errors in this week's column... I forgot to mention a point associated with the mispronunciation "eck cetera" (or sometimes "ect cetera"): people often misspell the abbreviation as "ect." I don't know which (the mispronunciation or the misspelling) is cause and which is effect, but I suspect […]