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

[Laurence Horn]

> On Feb 12, 2018, at 10:54 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> 
> BTW, what do your NEPA locals have to say WRT the pronunciation of, e.g.
> "that's mine" as "that's Mayan”?

Just checked with one, who said she says /mayn/, and then went on to ask “Were you looking for ‘Mayan’?” So it’s certainly another shibboleth, even if not universally manifested in the area.  Who knew?  She also recommended this website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sMI2jb16eo

LH

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> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:47 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>>> 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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