"Za"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Goes back to late ' 60s in college lingo.

  JL

Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Subject: "Za"
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Heard as an abbreviation of "pizza." Google: 579,000,000 hits,
primarily as the Dutch/Afrikaans abbreviation for "Zuid-Afrika"

=3D "South Africa."

-Wilson

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