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za AHD[zä] D.J.[zɑː]K.K.[zɑ]n.Slang（名词）【俚语】- Pizza.披萨饼，意大利饼
- Shortening and alteration of pizzaShortening and alteration of pizza
- When young people today speak casually of ordering aza, "pizza,” they are unwittingly producing an expression that is quite interesting to language historians. Za derives from the full form pizza by a process known as clipping. Two types of clipping are common in English: dropping the unstressed syllables or syllables not receiving the primary word stress, as in fridge from refrigerator; and dropping all syllables after the first syllable, as in ab, dis, porn, and vibe, whether or not the first syllable was originally stressed. In the case of za, the syllable that was dropped was originally stressed and was the first syllable, which is unusual. Rents for "parents,” is another recent example of the same kind of clipping. Interestingly, we don't need to stay in the realm of contemporary youth slang to see the results of this unusual process. The words phone, bus, and wig (from telephone, omnibus, periwig ) belong to Standard English but had their start as slangy or catchy neologisms formed by clipping stressed syllables, just like za. Who knows whether in fifty years za and rents will be as widely accepted as phone and wig are now? 现在的年轻人随意地点一客za "披萨饼"时，根本没意识到他们创造了一个令语言历史学家很感兴趣的词语。 Za 是经由对完整形式 pizza 进行 clipping 省略过程而产生的。英语中有两种普遍的省略方式：略去非重读音节或非主重音音节，如 fridge 之于 refrigerator ；无论第一个音节原本是否重读均略去第一个音节后的所有音节，如 ab、dis、porn 和 vibe 。在 za 一例中，省略的音节原本重读 并且 是第一个音节，这类情况很罕见。 Rents 之于parents是最近同类省略的另一实例。有趣的是，我们不必在当代年轻人的俚语中寻求这种不常见省略的结果。标准英语中的 phone、bus 和 wig （分别源自 telephone、omnibus、periwig ）最初都是经由省略重读音节形成的俚语新词或古怪新词，就像 za 一样。天知道五十年后 za 和 rents 会不会像现在的 phone 和 wig 一样被普遍接受
.zaabbr.（略语）- South Africa [in Internet addresses] South Africa[in Internet addresses]
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