a magazine of cat tales | ISSN: 2769-058X
Cats are limber. It’s a true fact about us and something I know my girl likes to watch. We lack a true collarbone which humans have. This makes us much more flexible. It gives us the ability to right ourselves when we’re falling to land on our paws. This lack of collarbone gives us the ability to squeeze through tight places. We just have to judge if it’s possible with the size of our heads.
This month’s cat vocabulary is the word whisker. A very important thing to a cat. Probably helps them maintain their balance anywhere they might be walking. They are also an attractive looking feature to any cat.
Saying Whisker in European Languages (source)
Language Ways to say whisker
Albanian: mustaqe
Basque: whisker
Belarusian: бакенбарды
Bosnian: dlaka
Bulgarian: мустак
Catalan: bigoti
Croatian: dlaka
Czech: Whisker
Danish: bakkenbart
Dutch: snorhaar
Estonian: põskhabe
Finnish: parta
French: Moustache
Galician: suízas
German: Whisker
Greek: γενειά(geneiá)
Hungarian: darukar
Icelandic: Whisker
Irish: whisker
Italian: baffo
Latvian: ūsas
Lithuanian: siūlinis kristalas
Macedonian: мустак
Maltese: whisker
Norwegian: værhår
Polish: Wąsy
Portuguese: Bigode
Romanian: mustăţi
Russian: бакенбарды(bakenbardy)
Serbian: длака(dlaka)
Slovak: chlp
Slovenian: Dlak
Spanish: Bigote
Swedish: morrhår
Ukrainian: бакенбарди(bakenbardy)
Welsh: trwch blewyn
Yiddish: ווהיסקער
This month’s cat vocabulary is the term the cat’s whiskers which is an expression for a good thing. Of course a cat’s whiskers are good. They look great on the cat and keep them balanced no matter what physically activity they may be doing at the time.
It must have been one of those expressions thought up by a crazy cat person. Why else say something is good by simply saying it’s the cat’s whiskers?
Sir Socks Le Chat 