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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 3:30 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> "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?
> 
> — 
Just checked with our two NEPA students at Monday coffee hour; one uses it herself (glossing it as essentially “n’est-ce pas”), the other doesn’t but is quite familiar with it, and (speaking of pizzerias) they mentioned a Pennsylvanianism unfamiliar to me: “tray” for a whole pizza.  One of them mentioned ordering a tray at a pizzeria elsewhere and being puzzled when they brought out an actual tray (with no pizza on it).  My VPN isn’t working so I can’t check to see if this is a widely recognized regionalism; it probably is, just not one I’ve heard.  

LH

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