"Za"

[Jeff Prucher]

--- Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:

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> >Larry, did they really call it "A-squared," or is it just you ?
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> >   JL
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> I can't remember when they started to call it that--quite possibly
> not in 1969-70--but at some point they did.   Anyone else want to
> chime in with specifics?
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> LH

They surely did (and do) call it "A-squared"; I can't help much with dating,
but the term was well-established by the early 1980s.

Jeff Prucher


> >Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> >At 2:21 AM -0400 5/5/06, Paul Johnston wrote:
> >>"Za" as an abbreviation for pizza is fine Ann Arbor-speak, vintage 1970. We
> >>often said things like, "Hey man, wanna cop a za?" back when Domino's was
> >>ours and ours alone in Ann Arbor (for better or worse). Haven't heard it
> >>since then, though things of this kind tend to be re-created over time.
> >
> >I don't remember copping 'zas as such in Ann Arbor in 1969-70, but I
> >do remember the place (no doubt one of the several Greek-run
> >pizzerias in town) that boasted "Hawaiian pizza" with pineapple and
> >ham--a specialité de la région I don't seem to have missed since
> >leaving A-squared.
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> >LH
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