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From: tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Pet names in different languages
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Date: Fri, 28-Feb-86 14:25:43 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 28 14:25:43 1986
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    I am interested in the names people who speak
    various mother tongues give to pets.  I am primarily 
    interested in fanciful names of pets; names that are 
    not human names but sound like names in another language.

    For example,
    my japanese teacher once told me that in Japan
    people like to give their dogs "western sounding"
    names.  He cited as an example a dog in his 
    neighborhood named "S".

    A friend of mine in Norway had a dog named "Sniff"
    (because he did a lot of sniffing; I'm not sure if
    "sniff" is a word in Norsk).

    In this country I would think that currently
    cute human names are fashionable for dogs and cats,
    generally, but I only know a few dogs and cats.
    "Oriental sounding" names were (or perhaps are still)
    common; I once met a dog name "Tsuki" (which could
    be nihongo for moon I think), and my family had
    a cat named "Changa". 
                  

    Tom Gross
    Apollo Computer, Inc.
    Chelmsford, MA