#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia
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"miaow": the sound of cat meowing in English. 🐱
1 comments — live from bluesky
Wynn Thornton (Needs-a-job arc) · 0 · 1d ago This is spelled neither "correctly" (as in, how an anglophone would write it) nor phonetically.
An anglophone would write it "meow."
Phonetically it's close but there's no off-glide. "Miao" would be closer.
(English does have both "ao" and "ou" diphthongs, but this is just the "ao" one.)