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I have never heard that pronunciation in my life
Could be a regional thing, similar to people who say ex-specially. Both grate on my ears a bit, but can't worry too much about things like that.
The other option is they heard someone pronounce it and didn't hear it very well and now they just go around pronouncing things wrong.
Side story - I had a friend in college who grew up in a very small town (like 30-50 people). He was the smartest person in his town, and he learned most of his vocabulary from books, so nobody was around who could correct his pronunciation for words he'd read but not heard. He spent the first ~6 months of college hearing phrases similar to "uh... do you mean LeviOSa?" By junior year he was mostly through it, but a word would pop up every once in a while that he'd butcher.
The more you talk to people who aren't illiterate chuckleheads, the less likely you will hear "ecks-cetera."
The honest answer is probably some combination of lack of familiarity and dyslexia
was just talking about Latin with a coworker yesterday coincidentally
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in fact, I invited that coworker to attend a traditional Latin Mass with me after I talked about it, really he invited himself but it'll be interesting to hear his take considering he's a somewhat devout Muslim. Very nice guy.
I usually hear "eck-SETRA" with the T and R blending together, not "eck-CET-uh-ruh". Usually if they get the first part wrong ("eck" instead of "et") they'll get the second part wrong, too.
lol yeah
Because you spend your time with relatively less well-educated people? Regional dialects?
Why do you even care? There are so many regional dialects in the US, let alone the world... words are going to sound weird, especially loan words from ancient Latin which itself is a loan word from a dialect of ancient fucking Greek
I've lived my life around pretty well educated people in the UK and frankly it's basically a 50/50 split. I still say ecksetra. I don't really care to stop. It's just a laziness from the fact this word is rarely ever spelled out fully and often said in passing without proper enunciation and then habit from then on. Not that hard to figure out. Many such cases.
And also who the hell cares this much lol.
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