So (aspicitis omnes modum hodiernum loquendi!) what is the Modern English for et cetera (or et caetera)?D L Sayers, who had a deliciously careful ear for individuals and their idiolects, records a lower-middle-class woman undergradute who (1935) employed for this purpose the word “things” (would the Cockney equivalent have been “fings”?). ” My mother’s one of those people who work to get things
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