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Thread #11584   Message #87686
Posted By: Roger the zimmer
18-Jun-99 - 11:49 AM
Thread Name: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language
Subject: RE: onomatopoeias: your favorites in all language
While we're on animal sounds, Donald Swann (of Flanders and...)used to do a song ,allegedly in Greek (must have been ancient Greek of Katheravousa 'cos I could't recognise any of the words), which was like "Old MacDonald had a farm" with cats going "mew mew" etc , and the title "Kokoraki" was supposed to be "cock-a-doodle-do" in Greek. Perhaps Theodore can enlighten us if it is genuine!
Whenever I'm in Greece, the cockerels seem to wake up just after the dogs go to sleep but before the donkeys and goats start! An extra Metaxas 3-star usually helps me sleep through!
Xerete