18 responses to “David’s Daily Digital Dollop – Dollop 281 – Inside The Animal Sounds Phonetic Assimilation Think Tank”
Mavis Crumble, Lower Bunfold, Cotswolds
I was taking this all very seriously until you reached the bit about the “oink of derision”! 🙂
Fiona
Another train! Yay!
The Runaway train I sing about at todddler group goes “woo woo!” not “choo choo!” It’s compulsory for all the adults to join in with the wooing. If I have to do it, so do they!
Fiona
When I did German at school we had a giggle at a comic or cartoon type thing where the dog went “knur knur” where you have to pronounce the K, which my phone isn’t at the moment. We all laughed a lot and thought this was the most ridiculous representation of a dog’s bark ever! When I was in the sixth form I asked a German lady about this and she said it wasn’t supposed to be a barking noise but a growl. Still a bit weird with the K on the beginning though.
Maja Dunn
Fi, I wonder if you have knur knur right for a German (shepherd) dog? In Dutch it is knor, knor, hence Knorr cubes? LOL
Maja Dunn
oops, forgot to say knor, knor is the sound for a pig, hence Knorr cubes?
David Eagle
Well my Dutch animal noises contribution comes courtesy of a rather weird song I remember from a Dutch Duo called Suicidal Birds. Sadly I don’t think they did one about vehicles. I think the drugs wore off before they got the chance to record it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuP5Bkzfxzk
Fiona
that’s a joke about the cubes though, right?
Maja
Dutch pigs do go knor…
Fiona
that’s almost as weird as oink! i’ve never heard of oink cubes though
Victoria
When I was taught train noises, I was told they went chikkichikki jan Jan☺️ and the horn went woo woo 😊
Fiona
Well that’s a bit confusing because you could end up with the car horn on my Friday morning runaway train! LOL! Oh and where did the consonants come into “beep beep” anyway? Weird!
David Eagle
This is clearly a controversial subject. I assumed choo choo was the recognised train noise in Britain, but woo woo seems to be rearing its head quite a bit here.
Katie
I’d say Thomas the Tank Engine definitely made a Choo Choo noise.
My confusion is with car horns; do you “beep” or “toot” the horn? People from Essex (myself included) “bib” the horn and I don’t really know why.
David Eagle
To bib or not to bib? Well if we live by the proverb The Only Way Is Essex, then clearly we must accept that to bib is the correct phonetic denotation of a horn. However, fortunately I don’t tend to use titles of ITV “reality” shows to inform my life choices, so I’m not going to be joining the bib brigade.
I think that modern Thomas The Tank Engine is still using choo choo sounding steam trains, so actually Thomas is probably the only real example of a choo choo train that kids have nowadays, but I think it’s still quite a popular children’s TV programme, so maybe the choo choo idea is partly maintained because of that.
Maja
A Dutch cockerel goes kukeleku
Fiona
LOL! That’s hilarious! made me laugh out loud. was going to say I wonder what the neighbours think but they should be used to me after two years
Clair Boyd
Ivor the Engine goes pssh te coo pssh te koo. But he’s Welsh. Lol. Xx
Gill
This dollop must have the record for the most comments. Who’d a thought it? All given me a chuckle! 😄
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18 responses to “David’s Daily Digital Dollop – Dollop 281 – Inside The Animal Sounds Phonetic Assimilation Think Tank”
I was taking this all very seriously until you reached the bit about the “oink of derision”! 🙂
Another train! Yay!
The Runaway train I sing about at todddler group goes “woo woo!” not “choo choo!” It’s compulsory for all the adults to join in with the wooing. If I have to do it, so do they!
When I did German at school we had a giggle at a comic or cartoon type thing where the dog went “knur knur” where you have to pronounce the K, which my phone isn’t at the moment. We all laughed a lot and thought this was the most ridiculous representation of a dog’s bark ever! When I was in the sixth form I asked a German lady about this and she said it wasn’t supposed to be a barking noise but a growl. Still a bit weird with the K on the beginning though.
Fi, I wonder if you have knur knur right for a German (shepherd) dog? In Dutch it is knor, knor, hence Knorr cubes? LOL
oops, forgot to say knor, knor is the sound for a pig, hence Knorr cubes?
Well my Dutch animal noises contribution comes courtesy of a rather weird song I remember from a Dutch Duo called Suicidal Birds. Sadly I don’t think they did one about vehicles. I think the drugs wore off before they got the chance to record it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuP5Bkzfxzk
that’s a joke about the cubes though, right?
Dutch pigs do go knor…
that’s almost as weird as oink! i’ve never heard of oink cubes though
When I was taught train noises, I was told they went chikkichikki jan Jan☺️ and the horn went woo woo 😊
Well that’s a bit confusing because you could end up with the car horn on my Friday morning runaway train! LOL! Oh and where did the consonants come into “beep beep” anyway? Weird!
This is clearly a controversial subject. I assumed choo choo was the recognised train noise in Britain, but woo woo seems to be rearing its head quite a bit here.
I’d say Thomas the Tank Engine definitely made a Choo Choo noise.
My confusion is with car horns; do you “beep” or “toot” the horn? People from Essex (myself included) “bib” the horn and I don’t really know why.
To bib or not to bib? Well if we live by the proverb The Only Way Is Essex, then clearly we must accept that to bib is the correct phonetic denotation of a horn. However, fortunately I don’t tend to use titles of ITV “reality” shows to inform my life choices, so I’m not going to be joining the bib brigade.
I think that modern Thomas The Tank Engine is still using choo choo sounding steam trains, so actually Thomas is probably the only real example of a choo choo train that kids have nowadays, but I think it’s still quite a popular children’s TV programme, so maybe the choo choo idea is partly maintained because of that.
A Dutch cockerel goes kukeleku
LOL! That’s hilarious! made me laugh out loud. was going to say I wonder what the neighbours think but they should be used to me after two years
Ivor the Engine goes pssh te coo pssh te koo. But he’s Welsh. Lol. Xx
This dollop must have the record for the most comments. Who’d a thought it? All given me a chuckle! 😄