Glorious scenes as Egypt celebrates the resignation of Hosni Mubarak with dancing in the streets, soldiers snapping photos with children, flags on windscreen wipers and a wonderful high-pitched tongue whistle noise (we’re not sure how else to describe it).
Jubilation in Egypt
Glorious scenes as Egypt celebrates the resignation of Hosni Mubarak with dancing in the streets, soldiers snapping photos with children, flags on windscreen wipers and a wonderful high-pitched tongue whistle noise (we’re not sure how else to describe it).
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Wikipedia is your friend 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ululation
Moving stuff.
The word often used to describe that sound the women were making is ululation (derives from the latin name for screech owl). Dictionaries often describe it as a lamentation, but it is frequently used by arab women as an expression of joy or celebration (for example, at weddings), and obviously, that is the purpose to which it is being put in this video.
Brilliant! Go Egypt!!
Is this the birth or death of democracy? Time will tell, I guess.
> and a wonderful high-pitched tongue whistle noise (we’re not sure how else to describe it).
How would you go with “ululation”?