The Norwegian band Ylvis’s song, “The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?),” a catchy and Euro-weird tune with a video including lots of fog machines and whipping bushy tails, brings up a pretty good question ...

All animals all over the world sound the same. It’s not like they speak different languages, they make the same noises even if they’re different countries! But why is it that different languages think ...

Horses neigh and donkeys bray. A lion roars, a cow moos, a hart coos, a bird chirps, and a bear snarls. We have all of these verbs thanks to onomatopoeia, which is the notion that some words are ...