"Coming to a _za [tsa]_-checkpoint near you!"
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Oct 10 21:35:33 UTC 2011
I'm pretty sure that I heard [tsa] and not [za]. IAC, I first heard
this clip in,
"And then we went for some _za [za]_ and _da_."
The speaker explained that _da_ is "soda." So far, _da_ is a hapax
legomenon, as is _za and da_.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain
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