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From: chai@utflis.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Pet names in different languages
Message-ID: <2258@utcsri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 01:26:18 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 01:26:18 1986
Date-Received: Mon, 3-Mar-86 03:19:53 EST
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Reply-To: utflis!chai@utcsri.UUCP (Henry Chai)
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Organization: Faculty of Library & Info. Sci., Univ. of Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <2c37a2c4.2a75@apollo.uucp> tbg@apollo.uucp (Tom Gross) writes:
>
>    I am interested in the names people who speak
>    various mother tongues give to pets.  

I knew a person from Singapore who called her Cocker Spaniel (sp)
Mou-Mou.  Her mother tongue is, I believe, English, though she
speaks a certain dialect of Chinese (Hakkanese ??).
Anyway, Mou-Mou in Cantonese would mean "kitty", which is absurd,
but in some other dialects it sorta means "little haired-thing".
("mou" -> hair; repeating the word is a sign of affection)

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Henry Chai ( guest on suran@utcsri )
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