From geraldherrin@earthlink.net Sun Sep 10 19:39:51 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id TAA70318 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:39:50 -0700 Received: from gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id TAA08014 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:39:50 -0700 Received: from [63.10.247.96] (1Cust45.tnt14.stl1.da.uu.net [63.10.247.45]) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA07387 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: geraldherrin@earthlink.net (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <39BBBF04.C3F2438B@charm.net> References: <9.a6a211f.26ed100e@aol.com> <39BBBF04.C3F2438B@charm.net> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:40:13 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Gerald Herrin Subject: Re: International Hog Call from Latin? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" >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? > >It's *sooey* if it's spelled at all. > Yes. In eastern Kentucky, it was "sooey" as another writer suggested, although I remember it being drawn out at some length, followed by short bursts of "sooey". So much for hogcalling. Now calling cows is something different. Gerald Herrin -- Gerald Herrin geraldherrin@earthlink.net "solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" .