How do different people around the world imitate animal sounds? Find out here!

http://www.flat33.com/bzzzpeek/index1.html

(it didn't work in my older Netscape but functions beautifully in IE)

that's a fun site, Anna! thanks for sharing.

for Mozilla users: don't try to open in a new tab, it will close your main window. just click the link.

Cool! I wonder where the Japanese sound for snakes came from...

Great site, AnnaS! Thanks for posting it "upstairs", or I might've missed it! Now I know there was a reason I decided to bring that Sneeze/Yawn thread back up instead of just linkin' it!

P.S. Youse Brits sure makes some strange animal noises, ya does! Must've happened during those alcohol-round-the-clock Tudor years, huh?

Yeah! All those drunken animals...who knows what they sounded like.

my stepdaughter and I were talking about this yesterday, so I dug up this old thread.

we have several new international members since this thread, so let's revive it!

Anna's (also the name of my stepdaughter!) link is now http://www.bzzzpeek.com/ I believe.

just curious about onomatopoeia in other languages. :¬ )

May I suggest you name an animal and add the English onomatopoeia so the outlanders could add the comparative sound-word?

well, actually, I was thinking more about other sounds, not necessarily just animals. things like "boing" or "ding".

Ehmm.. it ìs important to know what produces or evoques the sound.
Is 'boing' not an interjection? We have a 'boink' and use it when people, specially children, bump their head, or when they drop a heavy object. What does 'ding'?

a bell goes "ding". a metal spring goes "boing". boink the way you use it would be bonk for me, and not really an onomatopoeia.

Understood. Our bells do not go 'ding'. They go 'bim'.
A metal spring ??? I think it would go 'ploing'.

Branny, how do you pronounce the oi? We pronounce it like a German eu.

Yes, like in Feuer or deutsches. Goethe is pronounced slightly different. It should be like in Toynbee. (toying- ploing)
Latisha, what does bell do for you? Phonetically? Or Indonesian, Bingly?

I like the English word squeak as onomatopoeia.
A squeaking parquet floor; that's exactly want it does. Squeak ! Horrible.

A little bell dings, a big church bell goes bong.