a small plea

[Dennis R. Preston]

In the interests of the rather more general purposes of this list,
having to do with language variation in the Americas and not almost
exclusively the half-second antedating of a word or phrase or the
bashing of those who have not seen the most recent thoughts on such,
could this be answered privately. I know it's easy to delete, but my
delete finger is growing weary.

Hopefully,

dInIs



Hi sports fans, food word searchers and all interested parties,
     www.bluemountain.com the other day was running a pop-up quiz where they
ask you to guess the term for "hot dog" in 1905.  They claim it was "dachshund
sausage", popularized by sportswriter Tad Dorgan.  Is this true?

Lois Nathan

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Dennis R. Preston
University Distinguished Professor
Department of Linguistics & Germanic, Slavic,
      Asian & African Languages
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1027
e-mail: preston at msu.edu
phone: (517) 432-3099