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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:12:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: eve cole <ecole@d.umn.edu>
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Subject: Re:International Hog Call from Latin?
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If I had to spell out the hog call my father's family used it would be:

Sooo-EEEEE!!!! Pigpigpigpig!   Sooo-EEEEE!  (repeat until appropriate
porcine reaction occurs; usually only a few minutes if it is their supper
time).

And hog-calling must take various forms, because many southern towns have
(or used to have) hog-calling contests.  I'm not sure whether they were
judged on purely aesthetic grounds, or on their hog-summoning success
rates.

EBC
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On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 Rudolphus9@aol.com wrote:

> Sodales:
> I was told recently that there is a widely used hog call for herding pigs. It 
> is "Sui! Sui! Sui!" [The spelling is mine. The person telling me this never 
> saw the hog call written down.] Supposedly this hog call is used in many 
> parts of the world, e.g., Commonwealth countries, Europe, the U.S., et al. My 
> questions are addressed to listees who may have grown up in rural 
> surroundings. As a city boy I can truthfully say that I have never heard [no 
> pun intended] a hog called! My questions are:
> 1. Is this hog call in fact widely used?
> 2. Is it from the Latin sus, suis ("pig, hog, boar")? Presumably it would be 
> the dative singular.
> Thank you for any help you can provide.
> Cheers!
> Rudy Masciantonio
> 
>  Dr. Rudolph Masciantonio
> Rudolphus9@aol.com
> 429 S. 20th St. #A
> Philadelphia, PA 19146
> 215 732-6431
> 

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