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minus-squareSupervisor194@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-23 days ago Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”. It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.
minus-squarejawa21@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoYeah, that’s the kind of frog sound I’ve always known to be most prominent. I was also wondering just how much the most common species in a region affects the onomatopoeia, along with the language used.
It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.
Yeah, that’s the kind of frog sound I’ve always known to be most prominent. I was also wondering just how much the most common species in a region affects the onomatopoeia, along with the language used.