etcetera

[sagehen]

>'exetera' or 'ek setera'

>I usually pronounce the word as 'ek setera', and I cannot think of how to
>pronounce it any other way.
 >Surely you don't mean 'exetera' as 'esk- etera' (cf your example with axe,
>ask)?

>Vida in Vancouver BC
>vidamorkunas at telus.net
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I only meant to liken it to the axe/ask example in the sense of being
dialectal, not that the spelling/pronunciations were parallel.
I wonder why that first /t/ is interpreted as /k/.
 AM