Plyšáček!

[astrid]

What a cutie you are Plushie boy!

I'm so glad your story had a happy ending, with a loving human for you and a home of your own
Congratulations for being our COTD!

Love and lots of kisses for you cute little boy

[Felicia's Mom]

Congrats adoreable Plysacek, for being Cat of the Day!

[Kay]

What a cute kitty! I love his beautiful stripes. Congratulations on being Cat of the Day today!

~K.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Plyšáček! Look at those fluffy paws! Look at the M on your sweet little head...look at that adorable trusting face -- and body!

When is the next flight to the Czech Republic! I must go and love on our Cat of the Day!!! Plyšáček!!

plus I am eager to go to the Czech Republic...I hear such good things...

[MoonandBean]

How on Earth did y'all get those little accent marks over Plysacek's name?

Plýšáčék
OOps...never mind...I played with google and found a way

[Karen]

How on Earth did y'all get those little accent marks over Plysacek's name?

Plýšáčék
OOps...never mind...I played with google and found a way

Yes, the "optional characters" are part of most typefaces, you just have to know the right keystrokes to get to them, which varies depending on which operating system you are using!

[Edwina's Secretary]

How on Earth did y'all get those little accent marks over Plysacek's name?

Plýšáčék
OOps...never mind...I played with google and found a way

I suspect most of us did...."Copy and Paste"!

[MoonandBean]

I suspect most of us did...."Copy and Paste"!

See now I never thought of that! I did, however, google "how to write in czech" and then copied and pasted from there

[Sashymo]

How on Earth did y'all get those little accent marks over Plysacek's name?

Plýšáčék
OOps...never mind...I played with google and found a way

The ý is wrong here, but the acute accent prolongs the vowel sound for half again its usual value.

The s with the hook sign "háček" [š] above it gives it the phonetic value "sh".
Likewise the č: its phonetic value is "ch" as in "choose".

There should be no acute accent over the e in the cat's name.

Almost all Czech sentences have the stress on the first syllable. There is a difference in Czech between stress and prolongation of the phonetic value. A long a [á] is likely not stressed, but it has got to be prolonged in pronunciation. This is often difficult for non-Czech speakers to differentiate and master. The letter "y" and the letter "i" both are sounded as in Italian:hard e. There are subtle differences between these two that Czechs can hear. Likewise Czechs can hear the difference between y and ý.

The cat's name is in the DIMINUTIVE. In English we have Richard and Dick and Dickie. Czech diminutives evince affection and are vary common. So here we have formed the cat's name from the Czech word for plush, "plyš", and appended the affectionate diminutive; the cat's name is thus "little plush or plushie".