Book on origin of the term "hot dog"--Query on potential interest

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:02 PM -0400 10/19/04, Fred Shapiro wrote:
>On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>
>>  This is a request to see how many ads-l members would be interested in
>>  purchasing (or asking a library to purchase) the volume _Origin of the
>>  Term "Hot Dog"_ (303 pp.), which is currently in the proofreading stage.
>>  I've prepared the manuscript, but Barry Popik and OED consultant David
>>  Shulman are listed as authors too because of their important
>>  contributions to the study. (3/4 of the material in the book was
>>  ferreted out by Barry).
>
>I'll purchase a copy and donate it to the Yale library to make sure Yale's
>role in the "hot dog" story is memorialized.
>
>Fred Shapiro
>

Hear, hear!  Boola, boola!

Larry