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From: Elizabeth Vandiver <ev23@umail.umd.edu>
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Subject: Re: International Hog Call from Latin?
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I've seen the hog call spelled "Soo-ee" and "Soo-ey." My impression is that it is
(or was) indeed widely used, at least in the South; the stress is on the ultima.
I don't know if it's related to "sus" or not; but my 8th and 9th grade Latin
teacher Geraldine Hodges (whose praises I've sung on list before) introduced the
3rd person reflexive pronouns by telling us about a farmer whose two pigs were
named Sibi and Sese, so he'd go out into the fields and call, "Soo-EEE, Sibi,
Sese!!"

Elizabeth Vandiver



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