Erika paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly: >Et cetera means 'and the rest', and is two words in Latin. It's just >been contracted in >English, but one used to see &c sometimes. I always laugh when I see >"etc etc", because >there can be only one 'rest', after all... etc etc is quasi-intellectual slang [you could look it up, if i had a clue where, which i don't] for ad nauseam... sorry, my latin isn't what it once was, all i remember, clearly, is: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi cheers, ~flipper -- ~of Heaven & Hell: In Heaven music is English, beer is German, and girls are Australian. In Hell girls are English, music is German, and beer is Australian.