Origin of "hot dog"

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:05 PM -0400 4/5/01, Douglas G. Wilson wrote:
>Of course the OED shows "hot dog" = "sausage" from 1900 (quoting "Dialect
>Notes"), and Farmer and Henley (ca. 1900) show "dogs" = "sausages"
>(university slang).

more specifically in 1891, pub. date for Volume II, but given the
"university" gloss, no doubt it was already fairly well established
by then.  And doesn't the F&H listing suggest a British, rather than
U.S., origin?


larry