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Not too far, I have whisky and art related names on standby for when I get a dog :-)
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@PMessinger definitely not! I know a guy in the whisky industry who's seriously debating his soon to be born son Ardbeg :D
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Hahaha yeah but I've always been more partial to Loki :D That'd be an awesome name for a kid!
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@Nolinske Thank you we love the name to. Besides Bunnahabhain is just so much fun to says. Yeah I silly that way. :)
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We don't have pets or children, but we did recently name one of our cars Sonnalta.
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I don't think it's too far....I have a friend that named his two cats Booker and Baker after two Jim Beam expressions.
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@Victor I've never had any kids of my own. I just barrow my admiral's (wife) sons. If I did have a boy I thought Ardbeg or McClelland, or even Kilchoman would be good strong names. Girls are trickier however. :) @Nolinske I do have a Subaru so now you got me thinking of scotch names for that. LOL. :)
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Thor is great. What do you think about King Alexander? :D
For a girl Ealanta would sound quite intriguing.
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Well ofc his full name would be King Alexander the third! No shortcuts here
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I know of one couple who named their son Arran. If ever had a son, I'd name him Pappy, without a doubt.
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Not at all! You have not gone too far...
I have a friend that gave his daughter the middle name of Islay due to his love for the region and whisky.
I think it actually sounds beautiful!
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You could name a son or daughter Corryvreckan and call them Corry for short. Of course you may end up the subject of their memoirs later...
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@Nolinske, actually, yes it was a Sonata...Sonnalta the Sonata.
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The admiral just came in and said how about Tobemory. That got me thinking of Tobey, or Tom form Tomatin. :)
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My dogs name is Islay. When I bought her at aged 3 months her name was "Elle" but that is my sisters name so I renamed her a similar sounding name, which was Islay.
With a dog, vowels are key. Dogs don't really hear consonants much. Eye Ah is probably what my dog hears when I call her. She is a basenji and does not have a very large word vocabulary but her name was quite easy for her to learn, unlike most commands. Basenjis were voted the second most difficult dog to train. Of course, that's not really true. They don't learn well from punishment at all, but they learn very very quickly from food rewards, quicker than most other breeds. Obviously, the people who rated the breed hadn't learned that fact.
What about "Bowmore" for your dogs name? Oh Or has a nice long vowel sound. "Bow" for short. I think the long vowels are quite pleasing to the ear.
The word "Cellar door" was once voted by a few famous American poets as the most poetic sounding phrase in the English language. Bowmore has a nice poetic ring to it.
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Also, length is hard for some dogs to learn, naturally. Your dog might learn the name "Toby" but the full "Tobermory" is too long for a dog to learn well. Toby isn't Tobermory. If you choose that name, you will simply name your dog "Toby". And if you choose that name, why not "Kunta Kinte" as a nickname once in a while? Okay, bad joke.
I had a poodle one time. Poodles can be great as long as they're not too small and inbred. Obviously, yours is as far away from that problem as possible. My poodle was built like a standard but half that size. Very athletic. He weighed 28 pounds, which was a great size. Not a small poodle particularly. He could open doors with his mouth and had about a 50-60 word vocabulary, perhaps longer. One of the smartest dogs I've known.
Much smarter than Islay. But she has a more defined and unique personality. Her breed has been called "cat dog" breed, and for good reason; she likes to sit behind people and smell their hair. She stretches like a cat after napping. She licks herself from head to toe every day with her small little very course tongue that is catlike. She does not bark at all, but yawns with high pitched birdlike noises to express herself, or she grunts like a monkey, or occasionally groans. And she sleeps under the blanket in my bed between my wife and me. In the morning, she comes up for air and sleeps with her head on the pillow next to my wife's or my face. She always turns away so as not to breathe in our faces, though. It's very adorable. Pets are very healthy and good for morale. Congratulations on your new dog.
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Our next door neighbours have a 7-month old daughter named Isla (though they are not whisky drinkers as far as I know!). I have yet to tell them why I will never forget her name. :)
Our new car is yet to be named. My wife, while supportive of my whisky hobby, is not a whisky fan herself, so 'Glen', 'Voo Lyn', nor (Yama) 'Zaki' have made the cut ('Toshie' may work though). I may just think of the car as a more sporty version of itself and call it 'GTS' in honour of George T. Stagg bourbon.
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Actually, having dram in the name of you new addition is not a bad idea. As a puppy, she will have the occasional accident in the house, chew on your slippers, eat your entry 'French Door" (true fact, happened to us), etc...you now have the opportunity to say "bad dram, bad" and you can smile knowing that it wasn't a bad malt purchase you made. Enjoy your dog, it will bring you much happiness
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@PeterG7 My admiral (wife) just said we can also say drammit when something like the before named accidents happen. We have enjoyed our Bunnahabhain a lot and she is growing so fast. :)
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@PMessinger Perfect, now you have all the bases covered
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I don't think we've gone to far. I'm driving my second newly purchased CR-V - "Corryvreckan"
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My Admiral (wife) and I just brought home an AKC registered standard poodle puppy. She named her Bonny-wee-dram-o-Bunnahabhain (Bunny, for short) with the AKC registraition office. The question is, have we gone to far with our love of whisky due to the lyrical sound of the Bunnahabhain name that we would name a pet after a wonderful spirit or have other fallen down the same rabbit hole?