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I believe hot dogs are called frankfurters for a similiar reason. Now why do *we call them hot dogs?
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Btter yet, Anna, why do those South of the border refer to wraps as little donkeys? And while I'm on dogs, you know it used to drive my first college German professor apoplectic that there was a chain, here in the States, called der Wienerschnitzel. Not only should it be das, but a Viennese cutlut has little to do with a Wuerstchen. The chain has since dropped the incorrect definite article from their name.
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check out jheem's reply five posts up.Oh yeah, thanks et.  I missed that - unusual for me - I think  . Not only that, but I failed to make my link live 
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So what all this boils down to is "What's more American than hotdogs...or hamburgers?" ...turns out to be "What's more American than what's German?" Come to think of it...there's all that beer, too.
Wasn't German one of the languages that was seriously considered as a possible national language in our early years in the USA?
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Wasn't German one of the languages that was seriously considered as a possible national language in our early years in the USA?
I think that's an urban legend. I'll go check. Yup. Scroll down to the response to the Ann Landers column: http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.htm
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Thanks, Faldage.
Here's something written to Ann Landers on the subject from that site--but no way of verifying it today:
"In 1794 some German settlers in Virginia petitioned the U.S. Congress to have certain federal statutes translated into German and printed in both languages. This petition was referred to a committee, which voted the idea down - by a margin of one vote."
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Read a little farther down, Dub Dub'. Looks like even that one is wrong.
OTOH, Hitler *did come up one vote shy of unanimous.
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 Question is: Was there ever anything that was determined by a one-vote difference? Question #2: Which thread on AWAD morphed most dangerously into routes far beyond its point of origin?
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