Cows have regional accents like humans, language specialists have suggested.

They decided to examine the issue after dairy farmers noticed their cows had slightly different moos, depending on which herd they came from.

John Wells, Professor of Phonetics at the University of London, said regional twangs had been seen before in birds …

Surely that should be “regional twangs had been heard before in birds”!!

Anun goes “ti-ti-ti” (that’s not Spanish - that’s just her) at anything with fur and four legs, (or wearing a baby-grow), and then usually tries to pat it. She tried it with a fox one night.

She gets upset when I “ti-ti” spiders though.

Anyway I have, in the past, noticed with interest that it is only ‘English speaking’ sheep who say “Baaaa” (and only English speaking people who say “Baaaa” back). Gaelic and Welsh sheep (and natives) both say “Mehhh”…

I’m not sure how this works outside of the British isles though.

The way to find out is to acertain what the local translation of “Baa, baa, black sheep” is. In both Gaelic and Welsh it begins “Meh, meh…”. I have a vague recollection that it begins in this manner in French too.