hot philologist explains "hot dog" origin

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:08 AM -0500 12/3/07, Benjamin Zimmer wrote:
>Marina the philologist, host of "Hot for Words" on YouTube, takes on the
>origin of "hot dog"...
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMWQXyJzWlk
>
>More Marina videos here:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/user/hotforwords
>
>Barry just needs to work on his sex appeal and he too could get half a
>million page views!
>
Amazing!  She's obviously a pretty good researcher too, besides her
other...attributes, although not great about crediting her sources.
And it's interesting to learn that it wasn't "dachshund" that the
unmentioned cartoonist couldn't spell according to the favored
etymythology here but "frankfurter".  Well, a tad interesting, anyway.

LH

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