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Originally posted by Matty
my little toy when I was younger always told me Pigs say Oink, Sheeps say Bahh, and Cows say Moooo....
Now older a pig and sheeps sound is debatable but I swear a Cow does not sound like a Halloween ghost, it says Mooo
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Originally posted by Golden Trigger
Lol, a pig doesn't say oink
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You're both correct.
Second: Do Pigs make Different Sounds in Different Countries?
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Britain, Spain, and Italy, pigs are thought to say 'oink, oink'.
* Portuguese pigs go 'roncar'.
* Japan, they go 'buu, buu'.
* French pigs go 'groin, groin'. In fact, one of the French pig organisations is called <<Groin, Groin: Association d'Information de Protection du Cochon Nain>>
* German pigs, in contrast, go 'grunz'.
* Mandarin Chinese pigs say 'Zhu' and in Cantonese, 'Jul'
* South Africa, Africaans pigs say 'snork'.
* Polish pigs go 'chrum, chrum' (most of the time anyway).
* The largest pork exporter, Denmark, has pigs that go 'øf-øf'.
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The Netherlands' pigs go 'knor, knor' (NL is the second largest pork exporter). The noise made by pigs is 'knorren' in Dutch and Piglet (Winnie the Pooh) is called 'Knorretje' in The Netherlands.
* Finnish and Swedish pigs say 'nöff, nöff'.
* Russian Pigs go 'hrgu, hrgu'.
* Pigs in Lithuania say 'kriu-kriu'.
* Turkish pigs may say 'hoink, hoink' but we are not sure.
* Jogoslav/Serbo Croat pigs just say 'Hrrrrrr'.
http://www.bamfield.eu/sounds.php
Just a regional/cultural thing I guess.