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From: phoenix@genat.UUCP (phoenix)
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Subject: Re: Pet names in different languages
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 15:06:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 15:06:13 1986
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Keywords: Japanese pet names

In article <2258@utcsri.UUCP> utflis!chai@utcsri.UUCP (Henry Chai) writes:
>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)
>
>--
>Henry Chai ( guest on suran@utcsri )
>{utzoo,ihnp4,allegra,decwrl}!utcsri!utflis!chai       chai%utflis@TORONTO

I have a canary named Tori-san, Japanese for (approximately) Honourable Mister
Bird, and a Siamese kitten named Yuki, Japanese for "snow".
-- 
					The Phoenix
					(Neither Bright, Dark, nor Young)


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