down the middle or across

[Beverly Flanigan]

No, no--we always cut sandwiches horizontally when I was a kid!  But when I
got older, I learned it was more "proper" to cut diagonally (I never called
that "across").

At 03:01 PM 7/22/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>Cutting the sandwich across would definitely mean cutting it diagonally.
>And, fwiw, cutting it through the *other* (horizontal) middle seems very very
>freaky to me.  I would not eat that sandwich.  And I have no words to describe
>how such a sandwich is cut.  Just.... wrong.
>
>-dsb
>Douglas S. Bigham
>Department of Linguistics
>University of Texas - Austin
>http://hometown.aol.com/capn002/myhomepage/index.html