saw an ad on television and it showed a house with vast amounts of Christmas lights and decorations outside. It then panned next door and the house had DITTO in lights and an arrow to the highly decorated house.
When have you recently seen or used this word? I haven’t used it for decades. It is unclear it is even known by young people today. That seems to be confirmed by one of the questions under the definition: “Do people actually say Ditto?” and the Answer is “Yes, the word “ditto” is a real word, and it is commonly used to indicate agreement or repetition - the date beside that is Nov 24, 2023.
One of the answers says that it “often carries a nostalgic feel from the pre-digital era of spirit duplicators. We knew them as mimeographs, gestetners, and ditto machines. They died by the 1970s when photocopying took over. That’s a long time ago.
Today Ditto seems to be used in names - Ditto Music, Ditto fashion, Ditto Words, a content design platform.
There are examples of ditto in a sentence and the dates are 1998, 2001 and 2007.
So back to this ad. What was it doing using a word that is quickly moving into the obscure? Of course there’s an answer. This witty, low0effort response often goes viral because of its relatable simplicity and clever compliment, making the “Ditto” house the unexpected star.
And what was that word of the year that applies? Slop.
I started this Blossom Sun picture in the water colour class. I finished it in Photoshop. I am a much better painter with a mouse in my hand rather than a paintbrush.
There are many water colour techniques to learn. For example, the crackly finish of the background is done by applying salt on wet paint. The white flowers are created by waxing them with white crayons so that the colour of the sun doesn’t obscure them - white is a difficult colour in the watercolour world.
