Presidential dog naming contest!
The president of the United States is in the market for a "First Dog" for his daughters to play with. Apparently the Obamas have settled on a Portuguese Water Dog (see photo above).
It came to me that the TPM Café folk would love to participate in a presidential dog naming contest, which I hereby propose.
Here is my entry, but first a little background on the breed:
In Portugal, the breed is called Cão d'Água; literally "water dog" Wikipedia
In Portuguese the word for "dog" is "cão", but there is a trick here. The "ão" in Portuguese is pronounced "an", so that that the word for "German" in Portuguese, which in Spanish would be "aleman" and in French "allemande", in Portuguese is written "alemão", but pronounced the same: "an".
This means that the word for dog in Portuguese, "cão" is in fact pronounced "can" as in.... You guessed it....
YES WE CAN!!!
Neat, huh?
So my entry for the first dog's name is simply "Cão"
So my entry for the first dog's name is simply "Cão"













