"Za"

[Charles Doyle]

And in AS 59 (1984): 89, Dennis Baron mentioned "za," along
with the construction "Do a za"--and also the clipped
form "shrooms" for 'mushrooms' (at U of Illinois).

--Charlie
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>I'm pretty sure that Richard Seymour listed this in an
article that he published either in PADS or AMERICAN SPEECH
in 1965.

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