Farmers: Cows mooo with a twang

Canuck_Buck · 08-23-2006, 01:10 PM

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Cows have regional accents, a group of British farmers claims, and phonetics experts say the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds.[/b]

Lloyd Green, from southwest England, was one of a group of farmers who first noticed the phenomenon.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/08/23/cows.accent.reut/index.html

"I think it works the same as with dogs - the closer a farmer's bond is with his animals, the easier it is for them to pick up his accent."

Just how close?

Tazman · 08-24-2006, 06:26 AM

Actually that does not surprise me at all, different populations of whales in different areas of the oceans have different "songs" from one group to another.

Canuck_Buck · 08-24-2006, 06:42 AM

so zee cowsin France, zeysay " Les Moo " ?

Champlain Islander · 08-24-2006, 09:17 AM

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ORIGINAL: Canuck_Buck

so zee cowsin France, zeysay " Les Moo " ?

They run away from a fight and smell bad because they don't wash.