On Sun, 17 Mar 2019 05:31:55 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 10:34:32 PM UTC-4, Sheldon wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 22:21:15 -0400, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On 2019-03-16 9:08 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>> >> On 3/16/2019 8:37 PM, wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>> There are fast food joints in California called "Der
>> >>> Weinerschnitzel",
>> >>>
>> >> California is not representative of "America" any more than the Hawaiian
>> >> Islands are.* Regardless, when did you or any of us mainlander's ever
>> >> confuse wiener schnitzel with a hot dog?!
>> >
>> >It's amazing living on a rock in the middle of the Pacific leads him to
>> >assume that people on the mainland weinershnitzel with weiners. Maybe
>> >there are some people with the IQ and ignorance of a Hawaiian who don't
>> >know the difference. Maybe there is a difference in regional
>> >pronunciation. Around here hot dogs are wienrs with a W, but
>> >Weinerschnitzel starts with a V sound.
>>
>> Krouts say Vieners... same as they say Volks Vagon... Ach!
>
>No, they say "folks vagon".
>
>Don't you know any Yiddish? The orthography is almost identical.
>
>Cindy Hamilton

I worked with a lot of krauts, they all pronouned the VW Volks Vagon
ow Wolks Vagon, none said Folks.