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Words starting with D

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  • Ditto

    Italian

    The word "ditto" journeyed from 17th-century Venetian bookkeeping, where ditto (a variant of standard Italian detto) meant "said" or "the …

  • Dude

    The word dude is an intriguing American English term with an obscure, possibly imitative, origin in the late 19th century. …