jah I assumed you knew that less embarrassing than asking a quick look-up is both quicker and more thorough
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I'll ask what everyone else is afraid to: does this mean that The Viennese Waltz translates in a roundabout way to The Weiner Waltz because we deserve this goddammit
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Wiener in USian English is short for wienerwurst, as in Vienna style sausage. Frankfurter as in Frankfurt style sausage. The German immigrants brought "dachshund sausages", popularised at the 1893 Chicago Colombian Exposition,
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and by St. Louis bar owner Chris Von de Ahe who also owned the St. Louis Browns baseball team. "They're red hot! Get your dachshund sausages while they're red hot!" became hot dogs. Use of wiener for phallic objects just came from the shape.
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