DOG AND DOG LATIN.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 128, 26 November 1904, Page 11

DOG AND DOG LATIN.

It is greatly to the credit of canine intelligence that dogs seem able to understand not ' only orders given in any pure language, but also those given in debased or v *nixed languages. Is this, perhaps, the origin 'of the phrase "dog Latin?" asks the Spectator. The dogteams used when ihe Klondyke was first discovered were worked in a kind of "pidgin French," a- mixture of old Can-adian-French, English, and Indian. The order to start was "Macharn!" which all the trained dogs understood. This the English miners turned into "March on!" Its origin, and the fornt in which the first sledge-dogs had heard it, was "Marche, chien!" Probably most English hounds were addressed in a bastard Norman-French long after the language was entirely dropped in speaking to persons. It is just possible that the familiar "War hare!" and "Elooin!" are the remains of the ancient foreign hunting terms.

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