Here's a photo album of
all of Kaare's and Sophie's brothers and sisters, aunt's and uncles,
friends and cousins. This site maintained by our playful puppies proud parent's
pet people .
In particular, follow this link when
including Sophie and Kaare were wee tiny. They're getting large
enough to guess which ones are Kaare and Sophie by the 3rd and 4th pages :
Origin and Meaning of Kaare and Sophie
They're Norwegian Buhunds after all, so we tried to think
of good Norwegian names for them. Kind'a tough since neither of us
know any Norwegian. After much thought (and
this weirdness), we came up
with these two names:
Kaare
Kaare - is most actually spelled Kåre in Norwegian.
However, it's hard to type the little circle above the a, and you
certainly can't get those little dog tag machines at PetCo to inscribe
it. So like the old timers at Ellis Island, we decided to spell it it Kaare. (To type this letter, hold down the Alt key and while
holding it down, type in 0229 on the number key. When you lift up
the alt key, you'll get å). å is the last
letter in the Danish/Norwegian alphabet and sounds like the vowel in 'fall' and 'more'.
Originally, we just picked Kaare because we liked the
way it sounded. However, two different references I found
Link:
Link: indicated that Kåre is a common nickname for Curly. Assume that we picked the name because we
were thinking about Kaare's tail. However, all Buhunds have an
inner coat of tightly corkskew like curly hair (that seem to shed 4
times a year!), so either interpretation fits. (Of course,
we may of been thinking of one of the Stooges!)
According to this
link, Kåre
has been the third most popular names in Norway in the past 100 years, with
nearly 1 in 50 people boys named that. (According to this
link however, it
doesn't seem to currently be as popular.)
I did have one link that mentioned that Kaare meant
'like the wind', can't remember where however.
Kåre's name day is 22nd September.
Sophie
Sophie appears to be even more Greek than Norwegian, but
we know how far those Greeks traveled in ancient times. Sophie as
we spell it is apparently a French spelling variant of Sofie.
Link: Sofie is
currently the 13'th most popular girls name in Norway in the year 2006,
and the most popular girls name in Denmark.
Link:
Link:
Greek, meaning: Wisdom, or Lover of Wisdom.
In Denmak, Sophie's name day is 15th May, while in
Norway, Sofie's name day is 29th November.
