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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by tomjakubowski on Monday January 16, 2017 @05:13PM (#13413497)
Does any other language pronounce "et cetera" with the "hard" C, as it would be said in Latin?

Occasionally, you might encounter a Latin-speaking pedant who says "Kaizar" (this could also be a German :)) and "et ketera", but it isn't the norm in US English anyway.

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Re:The lost letters of the English alphabet by Anthony-G on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @07:07PM (#13422798)
I don't know Latin (aside from common phrases) but in many Romance languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian) the ‘C’ is only hard when followed by ‘a’, ‘o’ or ‘u’ (referred to as broad vowels in Irish/Gaelic).
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