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The word that lets you agree without the effort of new words.
means A word used to mean 'the same as what was just said,' sparing you the trouble of repeating it.
from From Italian ditto, meaning 'said' — literally the past participle of dire, 'to say,' tracing back to Latin dictus. It started out in business and legal writing, where the same month or item kept recurring in a list, so instead of rewriting it, clerks just wrote 'ditto' — 'the aforesaid' — and let repetition take a shortcut.
- origin
- Italian for said, from dialect for say
- symbol
- the mark is literally two tiny apostrophes
- original job
- avoided repeating dates in old documents