"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> > * ekset[e]ra
>
> But does this have anything to do with the word being
> sensed as foreign? I doubt it: "et cetera" is quite
> nativized. The pronunciation here I think is a simple
> case of dissimilation (motivated presumably by having two
> adjacent alveolar consonants).
That and /Eks/ is a common word-initial group.
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