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Usenet Posted 21 years ago
English in UK

Ditto

Do you use this word in your everyday life?
DITTO
By the way, what are the possible expressions in which it may occur?

Pawe³
Warsaw, Poland
  

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[/nq] What, several or ditto? I use both. [/nq] Typically in lists in columns, an entry may say "ditto" or appear as " (quotation marks, double apostrophes or inverted commas) meaning the same value as in the previous row, or the one above that if it is also a ditto.

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  • [/nq] What, several or ditto?
  • I use both.
  • [/nq] Typically in lists in columns, an entry may say "ditto" or appear as " (quotation marks, double apostrophes or inverted commas) meaning the same value as in the previous row, or the one above that if it is also a ditto.
  • It is also used to save repetition in a Q and A situation where the answer would be the same as the answer to the previous question, in which case one might say ditto.
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[nq:1]Do you use this word in your everyday life?[/nq]
What, several or ditto? I use both.
[nq:1]DITTO By the way, what are the possible expressions in which it may occur?[/nq]
Typically in lists in columns, an entry may say "ditto" or appear as " (quotation marks, double apostrophes or inverted commas) meaning the same value as in the previous row, or the one above that if it is also
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