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#70871 05/24/02 02:24 AM
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Dag nabbit! Just got home from work; haven't eaten dinner, and THIS is the first thing I read????
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And what, pray tell, was on the one you ordered for dinner? [snickering-e]


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#70873 05/24/02 03:14 AM
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Has anyone ever eaten a piece of pizza in Pisa?


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I wonder if there are other words containing a double s which are pronounced "zz"??

See http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=miscellany&Number=55512


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Will somebody please answer my question from the first page:

Is it all right to call Ozzies "Australians"?

Still wondering,
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Edit Addendum: And I think bikkie, chockie, footy, and dunny are twee.

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Has anyone ever eaten a piece of pizza in Pisa?

Lots of Pisanos and their paisanos have, I'm sure.

Akshully, I think I have. I ate something in Pisa while hitchhiking through, but I canna recall what.






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other words containing a double s which are pronounced "zz"?

This one hit me upside the head this morning. Possessive. It's got both.


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This one hit me upside the head this morning. Possessive.

Don't think of her as possessive, Faldage. She's just very, very fond of you, even if she occasionally wacks you in the head.


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Possessive. It's got both.

As does its younger brother, possess. What an awful word (to spell, that is!)


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re:Has anyone ever eaten a piece of pizza in Pisa?
well american/itlalian pizza is really naples style pizza, but in the rest of italy you can get a pizza rustica, i am told, (but it is a special dish for Easter. It is deep dish pie filled with wheat, (whole grain wheat, cooked till its a porriage)vegetable and other savory ingredients.

i am not sure were pizza really come from.. i have heard it come from the italian for a piece of pie -- as an idiom, since pizza really means point..refering to the wedge shape..


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