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"Blue pens, box of twenty".

Black pens, box of twenty ... $2.10Blue  "     "   "  "      ... $2.35

History

Early evidence of ditto marks can be seen on a cuneiform tablet of the Neo-Assyrian period (934-608 BCE) where two vertical marks are used in a table of synonyms to repeat text.

The word ditto comes from the Tuscan language, where it is the past participle of the verb dire (to say), with the meaning of "said", as in

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