If you've signed an employment agreement, ditto. He has created for himself a honed, primed-for-victory body and is working hard on a ditto mind. Rugby is cool, ditto the Eton wall game, because it's always fun to see some toffy nosed adolescents firmly press each others faces against a brick wall. If ditto machines were primitive, hectographs were downright prehistoric. Most of us spent huge amounts of time crafting material amateurishly, running it off on those old-fashioned ditto machines. On inspection, the colours were wrong, ditto the texture and the screws that prettified the straps.Īngela's sea bream was large enough to have fed us both and a small party of friends, ditto my lobster linguine.Īnd ditto the literary works being sampled, which in this novel pay homage to the half-submerged tradition of post-1950 British experimental fiction.īroad, muscular back and ditto loins, which are flat and very broad in females and slightly arched in males.Īnd ditto for those big 4-wheel-drive badges on the mud flaps. One stir plate is pretty much like another, ditto the separatory funnels flasks, vacuum manifolds, etc. To many educators, the remedy for poor classroom performance is an enormous amount of ditto homework sheets that mimic classwork.Ī radio will be on in the kitchen, ditto the bathroom, to avoid missing a result when boiling a kettle or having a pee.
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So zero marks for slow, ditto for marketing effectiveness and maybe full marks for enigmatic and intriguing. Tactically, it's clear that the fleet is less handily placed in Holland, and the army ditto in Denmark. It performs an act of saying by merely pointing back to already said words.Gucci has complained of a post-terrorism slump, ditto Mulberry, which now attributes a recent profits warning to the same cause. What she means is not just “I agree,” but “I hereby say the same.” Ditto still carries the concept of actual saying with it. If the Patrick Swayze character in Ghost said “I love you” and Demi Moore said “Agreed” or “I concur,” it would sound like she was agreeing only with the proposition he expressed: that he loved her. The force of ditto goes beyond mere agreement though.
Instead of repeating something like January 29 or Newcastle upon Tyne in a list, one could just put ditto in after the first occurrence.ĭitto gradually drifted from a noun meaning “the aforesaid” or “the same” (as in a 1759 cookbook: “Parsley roots, and leaves of ditto”) to an adverb meaning “I agree with what you just said.” It comes from Italian ditto, a dialect variation on detto, meaning “said," the past participle of dice, “to say.” It was used in Italian as in il ditto libro, “the aforesaid book.” In English, it came to be used in the 17th century to avoid having to repeat words and phrases in accounting and commercial language. But the “what you said” use is centuries older than the machine.
The reading is that a ditto machine makes copies, so saying ditto creates a “copy” of something that was just said. “Ditto” as a response meant as “same here” or “what you said” has a modern, almost slangy feel to it, so many people assume that it was taken from the copy machine use.
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It’s a crucial line in the 1990 movie Ghost, a favorite phrase of Rush Limbaugh’s dittoheads, and the reigning copy machine of the mid-20th century, but what does ditto really mean, and where did it come from?
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