Kids can make some very weird sounds

Have you ever listened to kids?  I mean really, really listened to them for an extended period of time (not that it always takes much time at all).  Boys and girls (some, most, all – take your pick) truly have an ability to make the strangest sounds.

Well, some are strange and others are simply their approximation of sounds they have already heard.  I’m more familiar with the random sounds boys make (you know, sounds like sirens, birds, trucks, tractors, and hundreds of others).  Girls seem to make more language vocalizations.  Probably proof that they’re smarter.

Sounds from ten year old male vocal chords

• Sirens
• Any truck, but especially:

• Dump trucks
• Garbage trucks
• Fire trucks
• Diesel semis
• Earth movers
• Earth graders
• Tractors
• Furniture Moving trucks
• Tank trucks
• Flatbed trucks
• Delivery (if they’re big)
• Multistop
• Platform
• Bottler
• Cement mixer
• Refrigerator

• Isotherm
• Tank
• Log carrier
• Bowser
• Box
• Electric platform
• Food
• Ice Cream
• Tow truck

There are more of them, I’m sure, but that gets the main ones listed.  And let me ask you this – did you have any idea there were that many types of trucks?  Me either.  But wait!  It gets even better.

Truck companies

I’m listing companies only because each company has its own sound, depending on the type of truck.  At least I think so. I’m not sure, but hey, kids are the experts.

• GMC
• Iveco
• Kenworth
• Peterbilt
• Ford
• Freightliner
• Mack
• Mitsubishi Fuso
• Navistar
• Volvo Trucks

Beyond trucks

Huge, gargantuan trucks are not the only causes of boy’s vocalizations.  Oh, no.  There are many other things, including the following:

• Jets
• Bells
• Whistles
• Horns
• Anything heard on television or in a film
• Walk through the San Diego Zoo and pick out pretty much any animal and a kid can mimic it.  Yes, it gets a bit spooky at times, but there you go
• Ships
• Explosions
• Bike horns
• Toys
• Heavy machinery
• Flying saucers
• Fighter planes
• Bombers
• Military tanks
• Jack hammers
• Entire construction sites
• Entire airports
• Entire amusement parks
• Entire freeways
• Entire aircraft carriers
• Entire Army
• Entire Navy
• Entire Air Force
• Entire Marine Corps
• Every single sound toy cars make
• Every weapon sound from World War II
• Pretty much anything else on television
• Ship’s bells
• Ship’s whistles
• Ships anchors being raised or lowered
• Trains

I could go on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on, but we’d both get bored and besides, by now I’m sure that you get the idea.  Kids can be a whiz at mimicking sounds. The other thing about mimicking sounds is that they like to do it.  Now I’m not sure just how many kids like to mimic sounds although I’m sure it’s quite a few.  I’m also not sure just when kids (mostly boys) finally stop making bizarre sounds – although to judge by some of them in the stands at sporting events, a few of us will never outgrow the need to sound off.

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