antedating dittoed WAS statistical jargon (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> The final one lists Tukey's paper as the earliest (so far) source, but
> it's not clear if he had coined it. In fact, in this case, the term
has
> nothing to do with statistics.
>
> Ditto
> > dittoed adj. reproduced by a Ditto machine.
> > 1955 /Biometrics/ *11* 42 Tukey, J. W., 'The Problem of Multiple
> > Comparisons', unpublished dittoed notes, Princeton University, 396
> > pp., 1953.
>
> Perhaps its too much to expect from a dictionary, but, if the coiner
is
> known, I'd like to see it in the article.
>

"Dittoed" (v) easily predates this;  I bet it could also be found in
early SF fanzine literature.  OED has the 1955 cite above for the verb;
not listed in OED SF project.

_The Linking Ring_  v 24 n 3, May 1944, p. 61 col 1
"The journal is a one-man, dittoed publication with a limited mailing
list, but is a prized possession of all those lucky enough to receive
it."
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