"Za"

[Arnold M. Zwicky]

On May 4, 2006, at 8:19 AM, Jon Lighter wrote:

> Goes back to late ' 60s in college lingo.
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>   JL
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> Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Heard as an abbreviation of "pizza."...

earlier than that, at least at princeton, where i hung out 1958-62,
with a roommate who used "za" almost exclusively for reference to the
food.

arnold

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