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
