Meaning and background
The story behind Sausage
Sausage is a cheerful food-word name with a long history in English. The familiar noun came through French from words related to salted, seasoned meat. In Britain it may also recall a familiar nickname for a dachshund, although that association is not a derivation of the food word. It is easy to call in two syllables, and the meaning remains culinary rather than a claim about a dog’s shape.
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Recorded as a dog’s name
Sausage appears in 4 dog licence records in the 2026 New York City dataset.
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Pronunciation and rhythm
/sɔsədʒ/
US English sound sequence, converted from the CMU dictionary. Stress marks are shown separately.
Stress on the first syllable in the recorded US readings.
Other dictionary readings and notation
/sɔsədʒ/ · primary stress on syllable 1S AO1 S AH0 JH
/sɔsɪdʒ/ · primary stress on syllable 1S AO1 S IH0 JH
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Sources and research notes (2)
- New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene NYC Dog Licensing Dataset — extract_year 2026 — Dog licence periods, not unique dogs; NYC only. No owner-level fields retrieved.
- Carnegie Mellon University / CMU Sphinx maintainers CMU US English Pronouncing Dictionary — US English dictionary readings; not owner-specific or exhaustive multilingual pronunciation
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