ditto in DDoc

Jonathan M Davis jmdavisProg at gmx.com
Fri Oct 8 14:34:37 PDT 2010


On Friday, October 08, 2010 14:22:33 Tomek Sowiński wrote:
> More of an English question...
> dunno <- don't know
> ditto <- ?

It's a word in and of itself, not the shortening or butchering of another word. 
According to merriam-webster.com ( http://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/ditto ), it comes from Italian. It's the past participle 
of the Italian word dire (to say) - which also happens to be the French word for 
to say, but French has a different past participle.

- Jonathan M Davis


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