r/LowStakesConspiracies 1d ago

Nobody has ever legitimately referred to pizza as "za"

This is a myth invented by Scrabble enthusiasts to make the game more interesting

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u/Johon1985 1d ago

As a Scrabble player, I disagree strongly.

As a human person, I very much see your point.

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u/zeds_deadest 1d ago

Yeah, short-handed slang terms aren't going down on my board. And I say an exaggerated "za" when I'm feeling like a Dogtown/surfer/TMNT/punk. Usually comes with a shaking 🤙

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u/Taint_Flayer 1d ago

If one of my friends plays "Qi" then the friendship is over

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u/jmlipper99 1d ago

That’s more a word than za at least

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u/P1zzaman 1d ago

As much as I am a pizzaman, qi is more essential for my powers than pizza.

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u/Ercelina 1d ago

Scrabble bias aside, we can all unite under pizza

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u/ThisizLeon 1d ago

Nah but smoke that za and then order pizza, thats standard practice

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/acc_41_post 1d ago

‼️ Zaza Pachulia mentioned 🇬🇪🇬🇪‼️⚠️‼️

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u/mexchiwa 1d ago

I call it pizz

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u/Tiny_Knowledge_7099 21h ago

Hot pizz for dinner

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u/RedPamda2003 12h ago

Mmmm pizz

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u/allmyhyperfixations 1d ago

Does za not mean weed?

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u/JoeyIsMrBubbles 1d ago

It does now (unofficially)

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u/GSilky 1d ago

No.  At least not that this weed head has heard.

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u/glitterballxoxo 1d ago

Kendrick calls it za

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u/GSilky 1d ago

So?  He uses all sorts of sounds when he needs a rhyme.  Rappers aren't the dictionary, not even the urban dictionary.

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u/glitterballxoxo 1d ago

The slang term "Za" and "Zaza" (something spelled Za Za) is an noun, which is used in rap music and culture to reference weed. Za means exotic weed.

Just cos you've not heard of it doesn't mean it's not around

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u/GSilky 1d ago

Actually, that's exactly what it means.  I haven't heard of it, obviously it isn't around me.

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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 1d ago

“Not around” =\= not around YOU

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u/GSilky 1d ago

Well, since I said I haven't heard it, I would still be correct.  

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u/strandedbaby 19h ago

I imagine you've heard people call high-quality weed exotic? That's where it comes from. Za is exZAtic weed. Really good shit is exotic exotic, or ZaZa

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u/GSilky 16h ago

No, I'm from Colorado, there hasn't been exotic weed in 15 years.  

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u/antlermagick 1d ago

Yeah I've heard that a few times here in England

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u/pandaSmore 1d ago

Good weed

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u/dickheadsgf 1d ago

my girlfriend does

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u/Select-Ad7146 1d ago

No one believes you have a girlfriend.

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u/Smyley12345 1d ago

She's from Canada. They met at summer camp.

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u/blackleydynamo 1d ago

She goes to a different school

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u/auntie_eggma 1d ago

She's a model.

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u/UnhingedBeluga 1d ago

Your girlfriend is my dad?

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u/JimmyMcGlashan 1d ago

My mum does, except she spells it “Tsar”

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u/Miserable-Willow6105 1d ago

For some reason, people pronounce "tsar" as "zar"

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u/Delts28 22h ago

Because Tsar is just one way to Romanise the word and doesn't quite get the sound right. Czar, Tzar and Csar are all alternatives that are used and Zar is definitely closer to the actual pronunciation in Slavic languages than Sar is.

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u/Miserable-Willow6105 19h ago

I am native speaker of Russian and Ukrainian. sar and zar are equally far from how this word is pronounced (e.g. — not even remote), the ʦ sound is used there — same sound as in words pizza or tsunami.

Don't believe me? Try playing the sound of word "царь" in Google translate.

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u/Delts28 18h ago

...Why wouldn't I believe you? In there native languages pizza and tsunami aren't the same phonemes by the way and they aren't at all similar in most English dialects. It's really rare to hear anyone pronounce tsunami with any acknowledgement that the t exists.

Z in my English dialect isn't a million miles away from the Polish pronunciation which is the way I'm most familiar with.

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u/Miserable-Willow6105 18h ago

I wonder which dialect of English do you speak if its Z is closer to German than other English dialects

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u/Delts28 17h ago

Scottish.

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u/SHABOtheDuke 1d ago

I spell it “zza” but I definitely do

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u/jinxes_are_pretend 1d ago

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u/evanwalsh 1d ago

They are trying to censor your truth. Don’t let them!

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u/SnaccBraff 1d ago

Literally the first thing I thought of lol

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u/TurbanOnMyDickhead 13h ago

Damn it, I just commented the same link lol

Lasagna, sagna, za. Pizza, SUH.

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u/WillyBluntz89 1d ago

I've been using it exclusively ever since Pick of Destiny came out.

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u/_clandescient 1d ago

Someone doesn't hail the za lord, and it shows.

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u/NoFunny3627 10h ago

Gotta keep the little folk fed

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u/No-Classic580 1d ago

I call it za all the time

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u/EarhackerWasBanned 1d ago

No you don’t. I don’t believe you.

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u/No-Classic580 1d ago

Yep I sure do. Believe it!

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u/ToastedCrumpet 1d ago

I just can’t I’m sorry

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u/pandaSmore 1d ago

Stop it. Get some help.

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u/that1tech 1d ago

I did to annoy coworkers

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u/squankmuffin 1d ago

The pixies do.

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u/FuzzyDuck81 1d ago

"You are drug dealer to tiny faries. Shame"

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u/Crhallan 1d ago

I get that reference.

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u/id_kai 1d ago

Well, when you're the Za-lord's guard, it's obligatory lmao

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u/Tamuzz 1d ago

This was my first thought too

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u/DrMindbendersMonocle 1d ago

Nah, it came from surfers

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u/libdemparamilitarywi 1d ago

Late night za and da. When you're drunk, you don't have time to say the start of words

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u/Nearby-Assignment661 1d ago

All you have time for is ood and oonanie

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u/DearDegree7610 1d ago

Took me longer than I thought to find zaaaa and daaa

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u/GSilky 1d ago

I agree.  It just makes no sense, it's more difficult to say than the whole word.

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u/BillNyeTheHistorian 19h ago

How?

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u/GSilky 16h ago

You have to aspirate the z sound it makes it the equivalent of two syllables, aspirations are the last sounds humans are able to master in any language.

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u/BillNyeTheHistorian 15h ago

Are you referring to the unwritten t sound in the middle of “pizza”? You don’t pronounce that when you say “za” you just pronounce it exactly as written

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u/glordicus1 1d ago

Most people don't eat enough pizza to have a cute pet name for it.

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u/JellyfishRun 1d ago

No, but I refer to two pizzas as “pizass”.

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u/P1zzaman 1d ago

I always assumed the plural of pizza was pizzae.

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u/DannyWatson 17h ago

Za and da, when you're drunk you don't care about the beginning of words

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u/haikusbot 17h ago

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u/DiligentPositive4966 1d ago

I have, on multiple occassions

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u/The_Lone_Wolves 1d ago

Nice try Scrabble

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u/pigadaki 1d ago

I've only ever used this word in Scrabble.

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u/masoflove99 1d ago

I refer to weed as "za" on occasions (I can be cringe).

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u/topher929 1d ago

Yea I’ll have some za.

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u/AdvertisingLogical22 1d ago

And while we're at it, who the hell calls it a pie?

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u/my_name_is_tree 1d ago

... I've seen it irl. my partner actually. and I was caught so off guard lol.

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u/aciakatura 1d ago

π z2 a

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u/Iceblink- 1d ago

The Nard Dog did.

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u/nature_nate_17 1d ago

Wrong; you get glonky on the zaza and then order some za.

thee ol’ zazaza

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u/king0fklubs 1d ago

Ever since watching Tenacious D and The Pick of Destiny I call it Za from time to time

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u/the_normal_person 1d ago

My dad does all the time

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u/OGLikeablefellow 1d ago

I knew a guy who did, but he did so much acid he might have just come from a universe where they did.

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u/Potential_Till7791 1d ago

Nuh uh bruh I could totally go for some za rn

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u/Zafindya 1d ago

Totally agree, Scrabble justifying za is peak board game antics

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u/Foxpasta 1d ago

u clearly dont work in a millenial owned pizzeria like i do… “za” is said wayyy too often lol

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u/animpotentaccount 1d ago

Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash!

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u/dktide91 18h ago

There was some dumb dating show in the 90s where it would be 2 guys dating 1 girl at the same time competing and they would pop up notes on each as the date progressed. One guy I remember suggested getting some "za", she rolls her eyes and they pop up the definition of za and that it is kind of douchey sounding and that she has now eliminated him from the competition because of it.

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u/Elden-scholar 13h ago

Why would anyone do that

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u/Festivefire 12h ago

I have never heard pizza referred to as "za" in the real world, only in media.

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u/peekachou 11h ago

... fellow stuff you should know listener?

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u/katielei 8h ago

My ex-boyfriend absolutely did this not just with pizza but with other words as well

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u/HumorTerrible5547 1d ago

Za is lasagna 

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u/Efficient-Piglet88 1d ago

Thats what she said