down the middle or across

[James Smith]

We always cut them vertically (and I still do), giving
two symetric (more or less) halves with equal amounts
of crust.

--- Beverly Flanigan <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:
> 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
>


=====
James D. SMITH                 |If history teaches anything
South SLC, UT                  |it is that we will be sued
jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com     |whether we act quickly and decisively
                               |or slowly and cautiously.



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