h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

what are good names for two skinny white structures recently set spinning on a wee island off the shores of Scotland? These two windmills are definitely feminine (the french engineers insist)and, having soaked in the peaty soil of muck for a few weeks, are taking on a Celtic or Norse temperment too. The 400 sheep , two highland ponies, colony of ferral cats, two pigs, cows, dogs, puffins (and 32 people) who heat their toes by the electricity these nameless poles produce need help.......

Dawn Quixote and Sandra Panza?

(Well you said they had to be female.)

In Icelandic, woman is kona and girl is stúlka, wonderful can be either furðulegur or dásamlegur.

Would any of those names suit?

mmmm yes I LIKE those two - will pass on out to sea and island. Much thanks

Hello PME,
I'm researching animal noises as expressed in different languages. See http://www.h2g2.com/A155017.

Does the Icelandic language have different words than "woof",
"oink", "quack" etc to describe such things?

Any info gratefully acknowledged.

BTW it's not going too well so far.
In my article I state that French dogs definitely don't go 'Woof' well I've just been told that they do!
As do German ones.

Damn it - researching something based on an initial premise is a BAD idea!

That should be http://www.h2g2.com/A155017
a dot got added by mistake

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