Fertilizer and other agricultural waste pouring into the Gulf of Mexico creates a larger and larger patch of lifeless ocean each year. Finally, the EPA has a plan of attack. Is it enough?
The abbreviation et al. means and others. It is most often used when a work you are citing in your paper has multiple authors. When a work has two authors, cite both names every time the reference occurs in the text.
ect. is an often falsely used abbreviation for et cetera which means and so on/forth. Also it is not one word as implied by the most upvoted definition and you DON'T use and in front of it, since et means and in Latin. If I were rich I would do all that douchey rich-people stuff like drinking Dom PÃ©rignon all day etc. WRONG: I ate so much healthy stuff like bananas, apples and ect