And now for something completely different...

Etc.

English language learners are sometimes confused by the abbreviation "etc." This is actually the Latin phrase et cetera (et = and; cetera = the rest). It means "and other things like that." Even though it is almost always written as an abbreviation, it is pronounced in full: /et 'set er a/
Imagine you have an incomplete list:

apples, bananas, grapes, etc.

That ending tells you that there are other things on the list which aren't written down, and you can read it: "apples, bananas, grapes, and other things like that." What could etc. mean here? Because the listed things are all kinds of fruit, it could mean oranges, peaches, or pears. It could not mean pizza, computers, or horses.

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The Latin et also gave us the shape of the ampersand, which means "and." Although the ampersand often looks like this:

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a few fonts make it easier to see the Et letters (here in Trebuchet):

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Cool, huh?

(This post's title is taken from the name of a Monty Python movie. The Monty Python TV show and movies were from England, so both the accents and the cultural jokes may sometimes seem hard to understand. However, the silliness of their skits is easy to understand without a word of English!)