There is an extremely small word that Lb for Lb could be the strongest in the written form of the English language. This word is ditto. Nobody ever writes ditto. Ditto is one of the least written words in our vocabulary. Little ditto has a symbol and the symbol is “. Ditto, of course, means to repeat. “ is a great thing to have up your sleeve if you can’t be bothered writing out “stayed in and watched TV” in your diary entry day after day. That five word sentence could be written in shorthand with five dittos. Ditto is also very simple to write being as it is a small downwards (or upwards, if you’re the glass half-full kind of person) two marks on the paper. Continue reading “One ditto at a time”