hot cakeは立派な英語

■1/25はホットケーキの日！食べ方色々「世界のパンケーキ」トリビア
(VenusTap - 01月25日 14:50)
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この記事を書いた人、生半可な知識で変なこと言ってますが、hot cakeは立派な英語です。確かに、実際にアメリカではpancakeと言う言葉の方が圧倒的に使われていることは事実ですが、だからといってhot cakeを和製英語だというのは大きな誤りです。

世界最大最良の英語辞典、Oxford English Dictionaryのオンライン版ではhot cakeは以下のように定義され、実際の用例も載せています。

hot cake, n.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌhɒt ˈkeɪk/ , U.S. /ˈhɑt ˌkeɪk/
Etymology: < hot adj. + cake n.
orig. U.S.

1. N. Amer. Any of various types of cake which are baked on a griddle or fried; spec. a griddle cake, a pancake made with a raising agent.

1683 W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 6 Their Entertainment was..twenty Bucks, with hot Cakes of new Corn.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 241 Fine Corn flour..being fried in the fresh bear's oil makes very good hot cakes or fritters.
1817 M. Birkbeck Notes Journey Amer. (1818) 64 Waffles (a soft hot cake of German extraction, covered with butter).
1875 J. S. Le Fanu Willing to Die i. 12 Sometimes we..made a hot cake, and baked it on the griddle.
1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 18/2 at Cake, Buckwheat and other hot cakes form a staple dish at many American tables.
1925 J. Gregory Bab of Backwoods xi. 141 So they got the blaze going, bacon sizzling, the frying-pan balanced on the fire, hot-cakes mixed and coffee set to boil.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. 1964 xlii. 16 Flapjacks, the commonest name for pancakes. Batter (or batty) cakes, flitters (or flitter cakes), fritters, griddle cakes, hot cakes are all known.
1993 T. Clancy Without Remorse (1994) xxvi. 504 It didn't stop Doris from attacking the pile of hotcakes.