"Hot Dog" (UNCLASSIFIED)

Mullins, Bill AMRDEC Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL
Tue Jul 14 16:55:31 UTC 2009


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The article was in Geneaologybank (part of Newsbank) within their
"Historical Newspapers" archive, not in Newspaperarchive.

I've forwarded it to Jerry under separate cover.

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> From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Cohen, Gerald Leonard
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:42 AM
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> Subject: Re: "Hot Dog" (1893, 1897); Hamburgers & Trilby Sandwich
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> Two years ago Barry Popik drew attention to an 1893 attestation of
"hot
> =
> dog" -- an unexpected development, since Barry's previous research had
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> indicated that "hot dog" (hot sausage) arose in college slang, 1894 or
> =
> 1895, specifically at Yale.=20
>     I just tried locating  the 1893 Knoxville Journal "hot dog" =
> attestation in NewspaperArchives but didn't find it there. Very likely
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> I'm missing something obvious here.  Is anyone out there able to
locate
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> the item?  I'd like to check the page to be sure that "hot dog" is =
> really there.
>       Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
> Gerald Cohen
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> From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Bapopik at AOL.COM
> Sent: Thu 3/8/2007 12:06 AM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: "Hot Dog" (1893, 1897); Hamburgers & Trilby Sandwich
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> <snip>
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> I've subscribed to Newsbank's _www.genealogybank.com_
> (http://www.genealogybank.com <http://www.genealogybank.com/> )  =
> service, for only  about $10 a month. It has the newspapers in
> Newsbank's "America's Historical  Newspapers" (that no local Texas =
> library
> subscribes to, despite my UT and Texas  State). ......
> ...
> 28 September 1893, Knoxville (TN) Journal , "The  (They?--ed.) Wore
> Overcoats," pg. 5:
> It was so cool last night that the appearance of overcoats was common,
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> and=20
> stoves and grates were again brought into comfortable use. Even the=20
> weinerwurst men began preparing to get the "hot dogs" ready for sale
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> Saturday night.
> ...
> <snip>
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