[Ads-l] Heard in an ad for a local pizzeria:

[Wilson Gray]

"You [local pizza-heads] don't order a couple of slices! You order a couple
of _cuts_!"

I noticed that "cut" was used at my late wife's favorite pizza joint, which
advertised "pizza by the cut" in its signage, but I didn't realize that,
like _heyna_, it was felt to be peculiar to the local dialect. And, in
fact, Googling shows that, though "cut" isn't widespread, it's not a local,
NEPA thing. It's more like positive anymore and "needs washed" than like
"heyna," heyna?

-- 
-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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