From dadams@caci.com Mon Sep 11 06:59:24 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA159150 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:59:20 -0700 Received: from cissco.hq.caci.com (cissco.caci.com [209.117.168.111]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA06616 for ; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 06:59:18 -0700 Received: by cissco.hq.caci.com; id KAA24340; Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:02:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mtaoutbound.hq.caci.com(198.135.9.87) by cissco.hq.caci.com via smap (V5.0) id xma024323; Mon, 11 Sep 00 10:02:04 -0400 Subject: Re:International Hog Call from Latin? To: classics@u.washington.edu From: "Danny Adams" Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:04:15 -0400 Message-ID: X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on CACIMTA/CACI(Release 5.0.4 |June 8, 2000) at 09/11/2000 09:58:58 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I can't help you with the Latin part, but as a southern boy born and bred, I can tell you empirically that not only is the hog call used (phonetically it sounds like "Sooooo-WEEE!", but in some places that even have contests to see who can call the most hogs. There should be an idyll in this somewhere. Danny Adams Rudolphus9@aol.com@u.washington.edu on 09/10/2000 12:25:50 PM Please respond to classics@u.washington.edu Sent by: CLASSICS-owner@u.washington.edu To: classics@u.washington.edu cc: Subject: Re:International Hog Call from Latin? 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 .