"Za"

[Laurence Horn]

>What does this have to do with "ZA"?

Ron, you missed the bridge.  We transished from 'za to Ann Arbor by
way of reminiscences of pizza-eating experiences in Ann Arbor.  I'm
sure it's all in the (recent) archives.  And of course we never got
around to changing the subject line.

LH

>In a message dated 5/9/06 1:30:52 PM, jprucher at YAHOO.COM writes:
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>>  --- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>>  > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>  > Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
>>  > Subject:      Re: "Za"
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>>  > >Larry, did they really call it "A-squared," or is it just you ?
>>  > >
>>  > >   JL
>>  >
>>  > I can't remember when they started to call it that--quite possibly
>>  > not in 1969-70--but at some point they did.   Anyone else want to
>>  > chime in with specifics?
>>  >
>>  > LH
>>
>>  They surely did (and do) call it "A-squared"; I can't help much with dating,
>>  but the term was well-established by the early 1980s.
>>
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