Having lived for more than a decade in Wales, I have it on good authority that Welsh dogs go “ych a fi!” when sufficiently enraged.
In Taiwan they go “Wong Wong”
In German it’s Wow wow but the w is pronounced like a V so it sounds to me really funny and I had to laugh when the kids were small (living in Austria) and I’d bee going all “but dogs go Woof..”
Italian dogs bow-bow, though since their phonetics are different it’s spelt out as bau-bau.
My daughter (just turned four) speaks a something of an anglo-Itlaian mashup at times and dogs are oft referred to as bau-bau’s
Bow wow wow yuppie yo yuppie yay, where my dogs at
Technically they say “bow-wow” instead of “bark, woof”, apparently.
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But what is “Canal & River Trust in Wales” in Welsh?! I HAVE TO KNOW.
https://youtu.be/zuhOevTwThA?si=S90d19yKOvsDsV5n
Bow wow is a juvenile name for dogs….
In Spanish dogs go guau guau
In Japan they go wan wan.
Bow Wow is a common term used to describe a dog’s bark around the world with its roots in Latin (Baubor) and Greek (Bauzein).
The term gained traction in the UK due to the Zelda games from the 80s and 90s that featured a dog-like character called Bow Wow.
In Swedish they go Voff or Vov
Onomatopoeia is language dependent
https://www.pangea.global/blog/the-translation-of-onomatopoeias-across-languages/
https://blog.duolingo.com/animal-sounds-in-different-languages/
Having lived for more than a decade in Wales, I have it on good authority that Welsh dogs go “ych a fi!” when sufficiently enraged.
In Taiwan they go “Wong Wong”
In German it’s Wow wow but the w is pronounced like a V so it sounds to me really funny and I had to laugh when the kids were small (living in Austria) and I’d bee going all “but dogs go Woof..”
Italian dogs bow-bow, though since their phonetics are different it’s spelt out as bau-bau.
My daughter (just turned four) speaks a something of an anglo-Itlaian mashup at times and dogs are oft referred to as bau-bau’s
Bow wow wow yuppie yo yuppie yay, where my dogs at
Technically they say “bow-wow” instead of “bark, woof”, apparently.
[Bow wow wow yippi yo yippi yay](https://youtu.be/XrYFGwg28As?si=SuhNwbqiFKpPOj7f)
Fuckin’ bow wow butt an ahhhh
So Lil Bow Wow was actually Welsh all along
I mean to be fair. Woof is ridiculous. Dogs don’t really have lips. How could they pronounce an f?
Traditionally, dogs in English went bow-wow. Woof is a recent addition.
Here is a nursery rhyme:
Bow-wow-wow!
Whose dog art thou?
Little Tom Tinker’s dog,
Bow-wow-wow!
The Real Mother Goose, 1916
Do they go Bow Wow Wow because they [go wild in the country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4Gh-GH8Miw)?
They do say woof, says it on the last line.
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