I've always heard you should name a dog with words containing hard consonants, because they can differentiate them better than vowels and soft consonants. I wonder how that plays into the results of this study (and if what I've heard has a scientific basis to back it up).
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That was actually a more interesting article than my gut feeling of "well, yeah, they can understand commands".