Pizza "cut" for "slice"

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>FWIW, the "cuts" at the place that was in Athens were square, not
>triangular. Could that be the difference?

In general, no, I don't think so. In the usual archives, there are several
examples of square-pizza "slices" -- even in PA -- and a few of round-pizza
'triangular' "cuts" (only a few since there are relatively few "cut"
examples to begin with and since usually the pizza shape is not specified).

Of course there could be some -- or even many -- people who call the square
ones "cuts", the radial ones "slices" ... or vice versa .... Do I see any
hands?

-- Doug Wilson


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