In one of our out-of-town sorties, we happened to share stories about geckos. This topic was injected into our conversation because we happened to encounter several geckos by nighttime when we were about to sleep. Usually, geckos come out during the evening but in the province where I grew up, I had some moments with geckos even during the daytime.
For first timers, a sighting of a gecko could be frightening. The old folks would normally tell us that once a gecko will land in your skin, it is like a glue that cannot be remove immediately. Once forcefully removed from a person's body, it may leave scratches or perhaps cuts on the flesh. And to those who have not seen a gecko, its sound during nighttime is somewhat scary.
Anyway, we shifted our topic to the different sounds of geckos. Different animals do have different sounds depending on the region. For example, the sound of a rooster in the Philippines would be tik-ti-la-ok. While in the western countries, its sound would be cock-a-doodle-do.
We had an American companion that time and up to the present, he has yet to see a real gecko. He said that in the states, no such creature exists inside their house. Most probably, if he was able to share a place with us, then he could have seen a real gecko first hand.
And so we shared to him the different gecko sounds. If I am not mistaken, in the island of Sabah, Indonesia, a gecko sound would be tika. In the Philippines, Tagalog geckos sound is toko. In the Visayas region, the sound is taka. And in places in Batangas, the sound is ala-eh-toko. (This is just a joke, of course).
Afterwards, we asked our foreign companion if he happened to hear a sound of a gecko but he said none so far. We tried to determine what a western gecko would sound like and we came out with a slang gecko. How about tokow, tokow? ;-)
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