Common Lexeme

pizza

Keywords: food

Pronunciation (IPA): 'piθ.θa 
Part of Speech: tern noun 
Class:  
Forms: pizza 
Glosses: pizza 

Description:

The term 'pizza' was borrwed from Italian via English and refers to the food, pizza. It was originally borrowed during the early period as a lazy verbatim loan, and pronounced as though spelled 'pitsa' (this spelling actually did coexist and have some currency right up to the early modern period). Many people started pronouncing the word as /'piθ.θa/, with a Common spelling pronunciation, because they thought it was funny, and kept writing the word as 'pizza', and it stuck. By the early modern period, the spelling pronunciation had completely taken over and 'pizza' was enshrined as the official spelling.

The New World Order can be very liberal in terms of what they consider 'pizza'. Aside from the aspects that there is a layer of bread baked with toppings, usually including some kind of sauce and cheese, different NWO communities have a habit of going in a lot of directions with the basic concept. This is not your classic British pizza of garlic butter, cheese and bacon, which is actually almost impossible to get. There tends to be 'tomato sauce' involved, which people in the NWO will tell you is a classic ingredient.

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