Pierre Abbat wrote:

On Sunday 25 September 2005 18:34, Carleton MacDonald wrote:
Two more I've seen.  The first is French and the second is Quebec.

Coke Light = Coke Diète
Hot dog = chien chaud

Hot dogs were originally called dachshund sausages, but someone didn't know how to spell "dachshund" and just called it a dog. "Chien chaud" sounds very silly.

phma
Perhaps, but no more so than "perro caliente" that I heard in Costa Rica.

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