Which reminds, me, wiener.
BTW, Fritz Machlup is quoted as saying that "what in New York is called a hot dog is called in Frankfurt a wiener and in Vienna is called a frankfurter," which is a true fact that I have checked out. BTW, in Denmark, a Danish (there's another one) is called "wienerbrot," (Vienna bread). Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bartlett" <billbartlett at enterprize.net.au> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>; <POLITICS at KAPPAMAKI.COM> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 11:48 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] toponyms
> Here's my two bob's worth:
>
> hamburger,
> gypsy (from Egypt),
> dollar (from some really obscure German place called Taler or Daler
apparently),
> denim,
> bungalow (Bengal),
> bible (the Phoenician city byblos),
> rugby,
> wellingtons (as in gumboots),
> blarney
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