Kryponite and garlic

[Charles Doyle]

I.e., the four sounds that elephants make to signify (with various shades of meaning), "Humans are listening!"

--Charlie



---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:22:33 -0500
>From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> (on behalf of Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>)
>Subject: Re: Kryponite and garlic
>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>
>
>_60 Minutes_ reported this evening on professors at Cornell who are compiling an "elephant dictionary."
>
>Of elephant noises.  At least four distinctive, significant sounds have been identified so far.
>
>JL

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org