Mrs. Bovington-Pasturby has a rather posh accent, unlike her Norfolk cousin Sally Broad.
There was exciting news this week for those of us who study the behaviour of cows, or bovinologists as we refer to ourselves.
Turns out cows have regional accents, which they pick up from the humans they interact with. A cow from Norfolk has a Norfolk moo, while cows from Somerset have a Somerset moo and Yorkshire cows are completely unintelligible.
So I suspect the cows I interact with all moo in baby talk, since that's how I talk to them. The babies especially love it. They gather at the fence just to listen to me talk. "That's a cute widdle baby cow, yes it is," I say, hoping the neighbors aren't listening. Now I can tell them I'm conducting important bovine-linguistics research.
In other cow-linguistics news, programmers have developed a cow computer language, with instructions based on variations of the word "moo". So now cows everywhere, regardless of their accent, can program a computer. (Sadly, there's still the problem of the nerdy image, which prevents some cows from going into the profession.)
