"Hot Dog" response

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:35 PM -0400 4/4/01, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>FYI--Barry Popik
>
>From: Chuck Squatriglia <csquatriglia at sfchronicle.com>
>To: "'Bapopik at aol.com'" <Bapopik at aol.com>
>Subject: RE: More "Amazin' Mets"
>Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 17:22:07 -0700
>
>Mr. Popkik:

as in "drop-kick".  Nice!

>
>I stand by the story...There are several trains of thought on the
>origin of "hot dog," but the most
>prevalent is the Polo Grounds story...

This method of etymological research certainly does make things
easier for the researcher:  just tote up the stories (or trains of
thought) and see which is most prevalent.  Democracy at work--gotta
love it!

larry