Page 3 | To ask when dachshunds became 'dash hounds'?

FlutterShite · 2023-12-27T22:06:30+00:00

I've always known their name to be pronounced 'dahks-hunts' or 'daks-hunds' - given it's a German word and all that. Suddenly though, I hear people with sausage dogs calling them 'dash-unds' or even 'dash-hounds'. When did this happen? Is there a reason for it, like when German shepherd dogs were temporarily rebranded as Alsatians?

fluffy2buffy · 27/12/2023 22:57

I call them Dashas 🤷‍♀️

flaxensunshine · 27/12/2023 22:59

I have a chocolate and tan miniature dachshund and he is literally the best thing in the world!! I love him so much.. I would seriously have to think about who to save in a fire, him or DH or DC!!!
And yes he has a tan heart shaped bottom which in my view makes him even cuter.

hellojelly · 27/12/2023 23:02

FlutterShite · 27/12/2023 22:50

Yes, come to think of it! I've always heard it pronounced that way though, like so many other Anglicised words.

With the sausage dogs, it's more like noticing for the first time that people are buying up Rottweiler pups and calling them Redwailers or something.

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Lieutenant is pronounced here as leftenant because in old french it was "luef" which was then evolved into the modern day word lieu. So we effectively took luef-tenant and turned it into leftenant whereas when the french language evolved it ended up as lieutenant.

ErrolTheRednosedDragon · 27/12/2023 23:02

QueenMegan · 27/12/2023 22:55

Dack suns.
Thought Alsations were a different breed to German Shepherds 🤔

No, they were renamed the Alsatian Wolf Dog by the kennel club around ghettos time of WWI because of anti-german sentiment. (Dachshunds suffered discrimination too. People can be weird)

ErrolTheRednosedDragon · 27/12/2023 23:08

Anyway... while all aficionados know how to pronounce dachshund and that it means 'badger dog', if you've ever tried catching one you'll find the mispronunciation entirely apt.

headache · 27/12/2023 23:09

Are they not Weiner Dogs?

talking of pronouncing these forrin words in Scotland we have Poo-Joe cars, even when they adverts call them the correct French name no in Scotland they are Poo-Joes, I lived in Englandshire for years and had a Peugeot and my Dad used to call me to ask how the Poo-Joe was and I would tell him again and again how the French who make the car pronounce it but no it’s a Poo-Joe.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 27/12/2023 23:16

My German friends creased up when I mentioned they are called sausage dogs in English!

MulledWineBeMine · 27/12/2023 23:17

brooksghost · 27/12/2023 22:25

I have 2 Dachshunds.
Large paws for burrowing, looser skin to help if they are caught on brambles whilst burrowing, strong tail so they can be rescued when they've burrowed and got stuck...and also visible in long grass, big chests for stamina, low to the ground for scent hunting, amazing stamina (mine need about 2 hours walking a day), bred for companionship...very very stubborn.
People always stop us to talk about them; the amount of exercise they need surprises most people.

There's a gorgeous rough coat that lives near me. He has a lovely tartan winter coat I said to his owner how smart they looked together with dogs coat matching his shoes!! He hadn't noticed... so cute.

i feel daft pronouncing works correctly rather than the English way. It just sounds affected.

ChocolateCinderToffee · 27/12/2023 23:17

headache · 27/12/2023 23:09

Are they not Weiner Dogs?

talking of pronouncing these forrin words in Scotland we have Poo-Joe cars, even when they adverts call them the correct French name no in Scotland they are Poo-Joes, I lived in Englandshire for years and had a Peugeot and my Dad used to call me to ask how the Poo-Joe was and I would tell him again and again how the French who make the car pronounce it but no it’s a Poo-Joe.

Do you mean ’Wiener’?

VeganNugsNotDrugs · 27/12/2023 23:18

Other pronunciations as asked...

Weimaraner - "Vy-mer-ah-ner" (German)
Malinois - "mah-lun-wah"

I will give up with xoloitzcuintli and just stick with Mexican hairless

ErrolTheRednosedDragon · 27/12/2023 23:20

Are they not Weiner Dogs?
Not in the U.K.

RampantIvy · 27/12/2023 23:24

I'm glad you started this thread @FlutterShite. One of DD's friends has recently acquired one. Everyone I know pronounces them as dash hounds but as my mother was German I grew up only hearing them pronounced the way Germans do - dacks hoont

The trouble is I worry about sounding pretentious but can't bring myself to say dash hound.

AmethystSparkles · 27/12/2023 23:27

While we’re on the subject it’s “bichon frisé”, which means something like curly, small dog in French.

It’s not “bichon frise” or “Bijon frise”.

ErrolTheRednosedDragon · 27/12/2023 23:28

The trouble is I worry about sounding pretentious but can't bring myself to say dash hound.

It's fine, plenty of British people do say it more or less properly.

RiverCartwright · 27/12/2023 23:29

Currently have one asleep on my shoulder. He most certainly isn’t a ‘dash’ hound because that probably involves unfurling himself from whichever human or blanket he’s chosen and moving. In fact the only time he dashes is when ordered out for a wee in the rain and that’s usually in the opposite direction.

I can pronounce it though, but mostly he’s a sausage.

AnnieSnap · 27/12/2023 23:31

Try getting people to say Weimaraner correctly 😂🤣 Seriously though, the German Hund is hound in English and it’s clear what people mean!

headache · 27/12/2023 23:34

@ErrolTheRednosedDragon i was being sarcastic I know they are wiener dogs in the US sausage dogs on the UK

@ChocolateCinderToffee it is wiener bit it looked wrong so I corrected it to weiner as it looked better 🤦‍♀️ too late at night there’s actually a film called Wiener Dog (as it’s also US slabs for Willy it’s just wrong on all levels in my opinion it’s like calling them willy dogs)

RampantIvy · 27/12/2023 23:35

Vimerarner?

XenoBitch · 27/12/2023 23:43

GoingDownLikeBHS · 27/12/2023 22:49

Can I just say that I've read on another thread tonight that they are the second most dangerous breed of dog in the world ...?

Not dangerous, but aggressive. Chihuahua are first in that chart.

GreyGreyGrey · 27/12/2023 23:45

I grew up in the USA. My grandfather had a dachshund named Sammy in the 1970s.

I thought the adults were saying “dot-sun.”

cynan · 27/12/2023 23:47

I've got a friend with 3 Weimaraners. I can never pronounce it. I know from my German O level it's a V sound but I pronounce it Bananarama with a v. I also can't pronounce aesthetic.

Ambi · 27/12/2023 23:50

I have one and I'm sure I say it both ways. I think it's because Daxund sounds a bit too try hard, like those that go OTT on French pronunciation of words. I will now make an effort to say Dachs-hund only 🫡

UnPushyParents · 27/12/2023 23:54

RiverCartwright · 27/12/2023 23:29

Currently have one asleep on my shoulder. He most certainly isn’t a ‘dash’ hound because that probably involves unfurling himself from whichever human or blanket he’s chosen and moving. In fact the only time he dashes is when ordered out for a wee in the rain and that’s usually in the opposite direction.

I can pronounce it though, but mostly he’s a sausage.

Family members have a dachshund (which they pronounce correctly, or shorten to dachsie) called Dash because he frequently dashes about. Until he collapses in his bed and refuses to move. They have to force him out of bed in the morning.

People assume his name comes from his breed, but it doesn’t.

RiverCartwright · 28/12/2023 00:07

UnPushyParents · 27/12/2023 23:54

Family members have a dachshund (which they pronounce correctly, or shorten to dachsie) called Dash because he frequently dashes about. Until he collapses in his bed and refuses to move. They have to force him out of bed in the morning.

People assume his name comes from his breed, but it doesn’t.

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Stubborn sorts aren’t they? 😂

The one in Lady and the Tramp was called Dachsie IIRC and I’ve come across a few called Dash/Dasher.
This one here needs to be ordered out of bed as well. He’s my daughters though and will be going home at the weekend. I have succumbed to the breed though and one is joining our family next month. Could be fun 😂

Sconehenge · 28/12/2023 00:12

I know it’s meant to be said dakshund but when I say it that way no one knows what I’m talking about so I just say dash-hound or even better, sausage dog. Same way that people look at me with pity when I pronounce the “T” in Moët, even though that’s the correct way 😂