Pizza "cut" for "slice"

[Marc Sacks]

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> I saw the following in USA Today. Is "cut" for a pizza "slice" just used
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> Mack & Manco's in Ocean City, NJ? Is=C2=A0"cut" regional?
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It's probably regional, but by no means confned to Ocean City, New Jersey.
I never heard anyone in Pittsburgh use any word besides "cut" to refer to
a slice of pizza.

Marc Sacks
msacks at theworld.com

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