TV Words

[Jim Parish]

Charles Doyle wrote of:
> such cutesy terms as "sammy" ('sandwich'; for all I know, however, that word
> may occur more general in some dialect that I'm glad I don't speak)

Hmm... could it be a derivative of "sammich" (a variant of "sandwich" that
I've heard here and there)?

Jim Parish
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