Searching for porcupine sounds I came across this amusing website of words in different languages for the sounds animals make.

For some, like the crow, everyone seems to agree what it sounds like. Others on the other hand exhibit great variety. One thing is for certain—with a call like cock-a-doodle-doo English roosters seem to be unique in this world.

Ilka

When my sister was very little she used to say "barf" for the sound of a barking dog. That just cracks me up now that I recall it. Hahahahaha!!!!

Patricia/AgDrgn

I remember once, in college, one of my classes got into a discussion about animal sounds in different languages.  (St. Andrews had a relatively high percentage of students from outside the U.S.)

I don’t remember the specific animal sound that initiated the discussion, but, of course, we ran into the rooster call eventually.  I remember proudly demonstrating that the roosters where I grew up most definitely called what resembled a cock-a-doodle-doooooooo, of course without defining consonants—more like ur-uh-ur-uh-urrrrrrrr...

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[quote author=Tim Ward link=board=omni;num=1045173324;start=0#2 date=02/16/03 at 15:23:57]...that the roosters where I grew up most definitely called what resembled a cock-a-doodle-doooooooo, of course without defining consonants—more like ur-uh-ur-uh-urrrrrrrr...

We had a rooster once who always left his statement annoyingly unfinished: ur-uh-ur-urrrrrrrr. The neighbor’s peacock, however, recognized in him a rival and chased him into the hen house. The rooster definitely had the upper hand with the peacock and its long tail cramped in that small space, and after somehow managing to turn around at the cost of some feathers, the peacock fled never to make that mistake again.

Ilka