Re: phonology of borrowed words
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 26, 2002, 17:49 |
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John Cowan wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
>> > And didn't hamburger come from the Tatars?
>>
>Anyway, apparently the stuff spread across the Baltic Sea to Hamburg,
Germany,
>where it began to be cooked. This version spread to America in the
>1880's, acquired a bun, and the rest is history. (An offshoot went
>to England, where it met up with doctor/health nut J. H. Salisbury and
>became the salisbury steak.)
>
And here I thought it was devised by the Earl of Salisbury, who got together
with the Earl of Sandwich...(recalling the very funny SNL sketch). A
pedantic friend of mine used to call them Sarum steaks.