"sammies"; was: Becky Mercuri's book American Sandwich

[Ed Keer]

I've often had 'soup and sammie' for lunch.

Ed


--- "Douglas G. Wilson" <douglas at NB.NET> wrote:

> The "sammie" which appeared in the ADS-L archives
> was among a group of New
> Zealand words.
>
> Here is a large list of NZ-isms, including "sammie"
> and other similar
> things such as "footie" = "football", "pozzie" =
> "position", "breckie" =
> "breakfast", etc.
>
> http://chris.heathens.co.nz/NZese.html
>
> "Sammie" = "sandwich" fits naturally enough in the
> NZ list.
>
> If "sammie" = "sandwich" is conventional in the US,
> there should be
> numerous examples in fiction: are there? It's hard
> to search since mostly
> "Sammy" is a name; but I checked several expressions
> such as "ham sammie",
> "have a sammie", etc. at Amazon search-inside and I
> don't see any "sammie"
> = "sandwich". Maybe it's very new in the US?
>
> -- Doug Wilson
>



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