Vienna
48.2083°N 16.3725°E · Q1741
5 English words in this atlas trace back to Vienna. It sits in Austria.
The sausage is named for Vienna, in German Wien.
German Wiener means “of Vienna.” English took the adjective as a sausage name, parallel to frankfurter. The place behind the word is Wien.
A whole class of French pastry is labelled Viennese.
French viennoiserie means things from Vienna, crediting the Austrian bakers who brought the method to Paris. The danish records the same journey.
The cutlet is simply Viennese.
Wiener means of Vienna. Austrian law reserves the name for veal; anything else has to be labelled differently.
British slang for total defeat, lifted from a cheerful 1932 musical about Vienna.
The phrase is usually traced to Goodnight Vienna, a 1932 British musical film and its title song, which were popular enough for the words to float free of them. Vienna contributes nothing but the title; the sense of finality is entirely English, and the phrase is a favorite of football commentators.
In Vienna the very same sausage is called a Frankfurter.
The name translates Wiener Würstchen, and the sausage is usually credited to a butcher trained in the Frankfurt area who set up shop in Vienna, which is why each city names it after the other. The canned American version is a different product that borrowed the name.