Why Do They Say Mush to Make Sled Dogs Go?

M. Matthews asks: Why do people with dogs pulling sleds say mush to make the dogs go? If we relied on Yukon Cornelius from the 1964 Christmas classic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer to teach us about dog sledding, we might be slightly misled. In multiple instances throughout the movie, Cornelius cracks the whip and hollers, “Mush, mush!!” to his dog []

TIL the dog sledding term Mush comes from Canadians mispronouncing the french word for go; Marche. : r/todayilearned

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