Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Now For The Moos, Cows Have Regional Accents
LSE, Tuesday, 22nd August 2006, 17:12
West Country farmers reckon their cattle moo with a Wurzel accent. Somerset herds moo with a Somerset twang, copying the human voices they hear around them. Birmingham tones have been heard in the Midlands, while Norfolk and Lancashire have also seen their own bovine vernacular. Essex farmers have also reported their cows picking up the much-derided local accent. Cattle owners put the territorial twang down to the amount of time they spent with their herds. West Country farmers say their Friesians definitely moo with a Somerset drawl.
IMO, as someone who has frequently observed cows, I have found Indian cows to be smarter than Western cows, more placid and pleasant in their nature and very family-oriented. English cows are on the whole more individualistic than American cows but it is hard to generalise and it may also be that the nature of US cows has become more placid in, for example, Tallahassee, than it used to be, after the relatively recent State laws abolishing cow-tipping, or probably more accurately, attempts at cow-tipping.
West Country farmers reckon their cattle moo with a Wurzel accent. Somerset herds moo with a Somerset twang, copying the human voices they hear around them. Birmingham tones have been heard in the Midlands, while Norfolk and Lancashire have also seen their own bovine vernacular. Essex farmers have also reported their cows picking up the much-derided local accent. Cattle owners put the territorial twang down to the amount of time they spent with their herds. West Country farmers say their Friesians definitely moo with a Somerset drawl.
IMO, as someone who has frequently observed cows, I have found Indian cows to be smarter than Western cows, more placid and pleasant in their nature and very family-oriented. English cows are on the whole more individualistic than American cows but it is hard to generalise and it may also be that the nature of US cows has become more placid in, for example, Tallahassee, than it used to be, after the relatively recent State laws abolishing cow-tipping, or probably more accurately, attempts at cow-tipping.
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