It needs a naming
Aada (my niece) visited my (now child friendly!!) apartment a few days ago. Afterwards she related this exciting experience to my sister in detail, including all about how she was kissed by the cat and how the dog kept barking. However being two years old she still has some trouble with pronouncing certain sounds and the awesome mix of Finnish and Swedish she uses doesn't make guessing what she actually meant any easier. So in fact she told her mom all about Lettu-hunden (and it tooke my sister a while to figure out what she was actually on about), which is just all kinds of awesome. So I've decided that henceforth, in honour of this, my dog shall be known as...
Pancake the Dog!!
...or maybe not. It's funny though. Funnier than the people who seem to think I'd name my dog Fox. When I'm tired my "r" sounds sometimes become very faint and Kerttu in that case sounds a lot like Kettu (i.e. fox). Though now that I think about it, I would do that.
Our family was never very good at naming pets. Especially cats though, mostly the names were in Finnish and Swedish of course, but there's been such names as Moped, Idea, Tomcat (it was a girl), Little cat, Philadelphia, Meowing-Mary, Bullshit and... well, you get the idea.
Still, nothing beats "Bä, bä, diapam" for amusing pronunciations by Aada, which come to think of it, probably doesn't make sense in English.
And now I feel like I should explain that one too. "Bä, bä, vita lamm" is a children's song in Swedish (based on an English nursery rhyme called "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". For some reason the sheep is white in Swedish). Aada manages to pronounce "vita" as "dia" or something like that and for some reason she has trouble with things like "l" and "f" and usually turns them into "p". So when she's singing it sounds like "diapam" which is usualy the name people here use for diazepam (which used to be valium, I believe). And it's kind of hilarious when she's singing that in public.
Pancake the Dog!!
...or maybe not. It's funny though. Funnier than the people who seem to think I'd name my dog Fox. When I'm tired my "r" sounds sometimes become very faint and Kerttu in that case sounds a lot like Kettu (i.e. fox). Though now that I think about it, I would do that.
Our family was never very good at naming pets. Especially cats though, mostly the names were in Finnish and Swedish of course, but there's been such names as Moped, Idea, Tomcat (it was a girl), Little cat, Philadelphia, Meowing-Mary, Bullshit and... well, you get the idea.
Still, nothing beats "Bä, bä, diapam" for amusing pronunciations by Aada, which come to think of it, probably doesn't make sense in English.
And now I feel like I should explain that one too. "Bä, bä, vita lamm" is a children's song in Swedish (based on an English nursery rhyme called "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep". For some reason the sheep is white in Swedish). Aada manages to pronounce "vita" as "dia" or something like that and for some reason she has trouble with things like "l" and "f" and usually turns them into "p". So when she's singing it sounds like "diapam" which is usualy the name people here use for diazepam (which used to be valium, I believe). And it's kind of hilarious when she's singing that in public.