"Hot Dog" in OED

[Shapiro, Fred]

The newly released additions to the OED include _hot dog_.  The OED's first use for _hot dog_ 'hot sausage in roll' is dated 1895 (a Yale citation discovered by Barry Popik).  But Barry's discovery of an 1893 usage in a Knoxville newspaper on America's Historical Newspapers, posted on ADS-L in March 2007, is omitted.

Fred Shapiro

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