"Za"

[Laurence Horn]

>Goes back to late ' 60s in college lingo.
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>   JL

I always put in the same bag as 'rents (for "parents"), from the same era.

LH

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>Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>Heard as an abbreviation of "pizza." Google: 579,000,000 hits,
>primarily as the Dutch/Afrikaans abbreviation for "Zuid-Afrika"
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>=3D "South Africa."
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>-Wilson
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