Vroom

According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the first instance of "vroom" appearing in text was in 1965.{{cite web|url=http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vroom|title= vroom|publisher=Merriam-Webster|access-date=January 29, 2012}} Its origin is traced to the United States.{{cite book|title =Chambers 21st Century Dictionary|publisher =Allied Publishers|page=1591|isbn =978-0550106254|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=D37Cd3Ad7eIC&dq=vroom+sound+language&pg=PA1591}}

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"Vroom" is cited in early childhood language development texts as an example of a common early word or sound made by young children in the course of play.{{cite book|author=Julia Gillen|title =The Language of Children|publisher =Routledge|year =2003|page=64|isbn =978-0-415-28621-3|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=8aaiLMGFLbkC&dq=vroom+sound+language&pg=PA64}} Anthony D. Pellegrini writes in the chapter "Interpreting Children's Play" in the book The Puzzling Child: From Recognition to Treatment (1982):{{cite book|author=Anthony D. Pellegrini|editor =Mary Frank|title =The Puzzling Child: From Recognition to Treatment|chapter =Interpreting Children's Play|publisher =Routledge|year =1982|page=55|isbn =978-0-86656-119-8|chapter-url =https://books.google.com/books?id=onUgc34CEXIC&dq=vroom+sound+language&pg=PA55}}

The social phonological play of two year olds is exemplified by use of conventional noises, through syllable repetition, to identify actions, events, and objects...Two children may be playing parallel or associatively with trucks. Their phonological play would be the vroom sound of truck engines

Julia Gillen further elaborates in the book The Language of Children (2003) that "vroom" and similar sound noises are the earliest examples of speech development:

However, you might look particularly at the accompaniment of words with actions. "Vroom vroom" is a good example…We might not count this as an early word at all; it might be used by a child who is not yet using words but who is consistently using certain vocalization to express specific intentions of feelings.

The word is also used as a tool in treating children with articulation and phonological disorders. Dennis M. Ruscello writes in the book Treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Children (2008):

The clinician should encourage vocalizations that can be carried out in the context of body movement or activity. For instance, a client can pair vocalization with play. The clinician and client might play with a favorite toy such as a car and make a vroom sound while playing.{{cite book|author=Dennis M. Ruscello|title =Treating Articulation and Phonological Disorders in Children|publisher =Elsevier Health Sciences|year =2008|page=120|isbn =978-0-323-03387-9|url =https://books.google.com/books?id=HM_QW78x5csC&dq=vroom+sound+language&pg=PA120}}

"Vroom" is an example of a cross-linguistic onomatopoeia, in that its pronunciation and imitative qualities are consistent throughout many different languages.{{cite web|url=http://www.tutorgig.com/ed/Onomatopoeia|title= Onomatopoeia|publisher=TutorGig.com|access-date=January 29, 2012}} The word is often reduplicated, hence vroom vroom, etc.

• In Batak, ngong, ngooongngng ...
• In Catalan, rum, rumm
• In Czech, brmmm
• In Danish, vrum, brum, nøn
• In Dutch, broem, vroem
• In English, vroom, broom, or brrm; the latter two are chiefly British
• In Finnish, vruum, bruum, prööm (spoken)
• In French, vroum
• In German, brumm, wrumm
• In Italian, brum
• In Hebrew, rum or rom
• In Hungarian, brum, brumm
• In Korean, bureung 부릉
• In Polish, brym, brum
• In Portuguese, vruum
• In Romanian, vrum
• In Spanish, run
• In Slovenian, brum
• In Swedish, brum
• In Thai bruen บรึ๊น
• In Turkish, vrum (truck), han (car)
• In Vietnamese, bờ rừm
• In Indonesian, ngeng

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