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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 Re: badger #17523 03/05/2001 7:44 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 A dachshund is half a dog high and two dogs long, so they are built right for attacking animals that live in holes. I have also read about their being used for turning spits on which large roasts were being cooked. Not sure what the rig looked like, or what the incentive was to have the dachshund cooperate, yet keep it from eating more than its share. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: badger #17524 03/05/2001 11:03 PM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... Jazzoctopus old hand Jazzoctopus old hand Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 1,094 Cincinnati & Loveland, Ohio, U... Hmm. . .you guys seem to think I'm an expert on German. Yeah, I live near a city originally settled by Germans, but I've only taken up to German 3 in high school. As far as I know, Dachshund translates literally as "roof dog", which makes absolutely no sense. "Dach" means roof and "Hund" means dog. A couple side notes about Germans in Cincinnati. -The Cinci Oktoberfest is the largest outside of Germany -There were once several beer companies in Cinci, but because they were able to make enough money just from local business none of them expanded and most of them went down when that darn Milwaukee company expanded. -In the 1930s they built a subway system, but eventually ran out of money, it being the Depression and all. Now we have empty subway tunnels under the streets of Cincinnati because they've never found in necessary since for Cinci to have a subway system. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: badger #17525 03/06/2001 1:27 AM Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel TEd Remington Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2000 Posts: 3,467 Marion NC According to the OED, dachshund means literally badger-dog in German. I've never heard anything about their being roof dogs. The ones with cleft palates don't survive to adulthood, so all dachshunds say woof instead of roof. TEd Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: badger #17526 03/06/2001 5:13 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Goodness, y'all need to go back to the beginning of this thread. N.B.: the neuter gender noun Dach plural Dächer means "roof'; the masculine noun Dachs plural Dachse means "badger" and Dachshund means "badger dog." Any German-English dictionary will tell you this. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: badger #17527 03/06/2001 5:28 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 But I lost my Muret-Sanders fifty years ago. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: badger #17528 03/06/2001 5:56 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Bobyoungbalt veteran Bobyoungbalt veteran Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 1,289 Lost your Muret-Sanders? Are there no Heaths? Are there no Cassels? I use a Heaths which is at least 50 years old (I bought it second-hand). The German section is printed in Fraktur type, which is what I learned to read in German I back in the 50's. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dachshund #17529 03/06/2001 6:03 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA There was a woman who bred Dachshunds in a nearby town and on the sign for her kennel she had the words : Dachshunds - get a long little doggie. For those unfamiliar with the song it's a cowboy ditty "Get along, little doggie" In cowboy lingo a doggie is a calf and the song told of a cattle drive. wow Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dachshund #17530 03/07/2001 5:38 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Here dachshunds are often referred to as sausage dogs, but I think they're just stringing us along. If you have one that goes "woof" then I think you're warped. The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dachshund #17531 03/11/2001 4:29 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13 Hopkinsville, KY Jeffrey stranger Jeffrey stranger Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13 Hopkinsville, KY ...a doggie is a calf...(wow) A dogie, dogy, or dogey is a calf without a mother, according to my Encarta World English Dictionary. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dachshund #17532 03/11/2001 12:41 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA wow Carpal Tunnel wow Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,439 New England, USA RighteeO Jeffrey, I was using the doggerel lyric in the old song, sung about a trail drive, "Get along little dogie, get along, get along ..." I will note the correct spelling for future . Thanks wow Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Dachshund #17533 03/12/2001 2:02 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park and daggy is something else entirely-- it is a word i only know from the ozzie song "Here we're in New South Wales" my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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