I have a lot of runners up, like Amrito for Amy, or Bradinglesmirch for Briar, but I think the dumbest has to be Scott Von Scott of the Scottsdale Scotts Who Did Scott So Scottily in the Battle of Scotteen Twelve.

So I ask you, what’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever called your furry friends?

  • stoy
    14·
    10 months ago

    We had a lovely cat when I grew up, she was completely black, with short but compact fur, and tuffs on her ears.

    For this to make sense, I need to talk about Swedish grammar…

    In Swedish grammar we have two genus for words:

    “Utrum” words get the suffix “(e)n” in their definitive form.

    “Neutrum” words get the suffix “(e)t” in their definite form.

    These words also get the en/ett article in front of it when talking about a signular unspecified item.

    Example:

    Car - bil, a car - en bil, the car - bilen

    Table - bord, a table - ett bord, the table - bordet

    Now, the Swedish word for cat is an utrum word:

    Katt, en katt, katten.

    One of the nicknames we used to call our cat was the neutrum defined form: “kattet”.

    Which if I am looking back at this comment is a funny nickname, with a stupidly complex explanation to non Swedish speakers.