what sound does a turkey make in Russian?

[Yelena]

Dear Michael,

In Russian villages when grandmothers show their grandchildren the sounds
which home animals produce they show turkeys's sound the following way. They
quickly turned their heads from left to write, and from right to left  so
the cheeks quickly moved and at the same tome prolong a vowel [e]. It is
very funny and quite close to the turkeys' sounds. Best regards,

Dr. Yelena Minyonok
www.russianexpedition.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Denner" <mdenner at STETSON.EDU>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2005 12:05 AM
Subject: [SEELANGS] what sound does a turkey make in Russian?


Colleagues,

A student asked me what sound turkeys make in Russian. I replied that, since
_Meleagris_ is a New-World genus, I doubted that they made any noise
whatsoever in Russian. This seemed not to satisfy them.



Does anyone know?



mad



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   Director, University Honors Program



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