Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, Recent Examples on the Web: Verb There’s a bit of humorous hopelessness to her, ditto the fact that her time machine is actually a tanning bed in the backroom of her favorite nail salon. 2017 Yes, chairs on wheels whiz in and out, ditto a desk, people run around in circles and bob up and down at will. 2017 Ditto his ability to transcend even so-so songs through the sheer force of his musical skills and personality. Sarah Mccoll, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017 The offensive line is decent, ditto the defensive line and the young corners. Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb The seeds did improve yield compared with the local Obatanpa variety, but Ghanaians couldn’t afford to purchase more for the following year’s crop ditto the chemical inputs (pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers) that ensured success. Since you've said what I wanted to say-only better-I will just ditto your comments in my final report AdjectiveĪnother mega mall filled with chain stores selling ditto merchandise See More Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated, 15 Sept. Verb My favorite was "Sports Collector's News" (the exact pluralization and positioning of the apostrophe I can't quite remember), a dittoed journal produced in some Wisconsin backwater by a man with a Ukrainian surname. Tuesday was spent working all day, and Wednesday was spent ditto. Cynthia Ozick, New York Times Book Review, 25 Mar.
DITTO DEFINITION FREE
I don't know how he gets his living, or whether his letters romanticize either his poverty (he reports only a hunger for books) or his passion ( ditto) still, David is a free intellect, a free imagination. David Owen, Atlantic, September 1989 David is not exactly a crank who writes to writers, although he is probably a bit of that too. Using a nail instead of glue to tighten a loose leg on an old chair (as I myself have done) will often destroy the chair, by splitting the wood and ruining the joint ( ditto). Jennifer Newman, Elle, June 1993 Flexner is especially good at showing how misguided attempts to repair furniture can cause more problems than they solve. 1998 Until recently most of us believed that such regimens, which usually require a personal trainer, were available only to women whose bodies are their fortune (think Madonna), or who have nothing better to do with their time ( ditto). Mary Tannen, New York Times Magazine, 20 Dec. It will be from her, or to her, and she will recognize her own name. 2001 She sinks to her knees and seizes a package, eagerly looking at the tag. Good advice, maybe, but Simmons, 56, the new president of Brown University, never paid much attention to it. Don't get pigeonholed by focusing on affirmative action or African-American studies. O, The Oprah Magazine, January 2007 Work your way up through the faculty ranks, they said. Ditto travel, romantic dinners, even shopping. Although I often enjoy parties, I don't look forward to them. Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format.Adverb I worry that I don't have whatever synapses you need to anticipate fun. (Let's hope this contribution by the good Doctor himself is no ditto of any other dictionary's entry for today's silly Good Word.) Latin inherited its word from PIE root deik- "to show, say emphatically", source also of Old English tæcan "to show", Modern English teach, Ancient Greek deiknyein "to show, indicate", German zeigen "to show", and Latin digitus "finger", a pointer, indicator. The Italian word is a reduction of Latin dicere "speak, tell, say", found in many English borrowings like dictate, predict, dictionary. Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from the Tuscan dialect of Italian, ditto "(in) the said (month or year)", a variant of literary Italian detto "(already) said", the past participle of dire "to say". In Play: Ditto is a silly option to avoid repetition in a language that is rife with repetition: "Jack Daniels came to work Monday morning rather the worse for liquor and it was said, ditto last night." Repetitions like 'red, red rose' and 'Sing! Sing! Sing!' are commonplace in English: "Agnes came to the party in dittos of Maude Lynn Dresser's attire." Ditto is usually symbolized with the double quote sign ("). Rush Limbaugh fans called themselves dittoheads, and dittoship and dittology have all had brief careers in the past.
Notes: While today's word has a meager lexical family, it itself may be used as an adjective (a ditto day) or verb (to ditto what somebody else says). The aforesaid, the same as was just spoken or printed above.
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