• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    24 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.

    • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
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      23 days ago

      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.