[Magdalen] Mardi Gras.

[ME Michaud]

My mother said she first saw/ate pizza at the 1939 World's Fair.

I also have a Webster's second, but it's boxed. The paper's gone friable.
God how we flang crap at the scandalous Webster's third.
-M


On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
wrote:

> I moved with my parents from Michigan to Maryland in 1961. I was 12. I had
> never even heard the word "pizza", and had certainly never seen or eaten
> one.
>
> A few years ago I noticed that my beloved copy of Webster’s New
> International Dictionary (second edition) lists "oregano" as a foreign
> word, in a footnote.
>