Editing Onomatopoeia (section)

=== Cross-cultural differences ===
Although a particular sound is heard similarly by people of different cultures, it is often expressed through the use of different phonetic strings in different languages. For example, the "''snip''"of a pair of scissors is ''{{lang|it|cri-cri}}'' in [[Italian language|Italian]],<ref name="Andersen 1998">{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=Earl R. |title=A Grammar of Iconism |date=1998 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |isbn=9780838637647 |page=112 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2v1hv6oL9moC&pg=PA112}}</ref> ''{{lang|es|riqui-riqui}}'' in [[Spanish language|Spanish]],<ref name="Andersen 1998" /> ''{{lang|pt|terre-terre}}''<ref name="Andersen 1998" /> or ''{{lang|pt|treque-treque}}''{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], ''{{Transliteration|el|krits-krits}}'' in [[Modern Greek|modern]] [[Greek language|Greek]],<ref name="Andersen 1998" /> ''{{lang|sq|cëk-cëk}}'' in [[Albanian language|Albanian]],{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} and ''{{Transliteration|hi|kaṭr-kaṭr}}'' in [[Hindi]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}} Similarly, the "''honk''" of a car's horn is ''{{Transliteration|zh|ba-ba}}'' ([[Han characters|Han]]: {{lang|zh|叭叭}}) in [[Mandarin Chinese|Mandarin]], ''{{lang|fr|tut-tut}}'' in [[French language|French]], ''{{Transliteration|ja|pu-pu}}'' in [[Japanese language|Japanese]], ''{{Transliteration|ko|bbang-bbang}}'' in [[Korean language|Korean]], ''{{lang|no|bært-bært}}'' in [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]], ''{{lang|pt|fom-fom}}'' in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] and ''{{Transliteration|vi|bim-bim}}'' in [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2019}}