I was flying to Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, for parking at the Dassault Falcon Jet flight ops department. When I was about two miles to the northeast of the field for Runway 24, the controller told me to do a 360 for jet traffic landing on Runway 19. Old Bonanzas are great short field airplanes, and after my brief circle tour of Hackensack, I easily made the first turnoff (Taxiway Romeo) to the ramp. The ground controller asked if I were going to “Dah-Salt,” (as so many people mispronounce the name), and I corrected him, “It’s French: ‘Dass-Oh.’ Kinda rhymes with ‘Lasso.'”
Remarking on the short ground roll and turnoff, he quipped back, “We could have used ‘LAHSO’ for you.”
