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[โ€“] Supervisor194 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Hot take, English got it wrong. I've never heard a frog make a sound like "ribbit".

It's a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, that's the kind of frog sound I've always known to be most prominent. I was also wondering just how much the most common species in a region affects the onomatopoeia, along with the language used.