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In a message dated 9/10/2000 11:27:00, Rudolphus9@aol.com writes:

>1. Is this hog call in fact widely used?

My grandfather and others used such a call for pigs.  They lived on a farm in 
very rural southwest Virginia.

>2. Is it from the Latin sus, suis ("pig, hog, boar")? Presumably it would
>be the dative singular.

Interesting coincidence, if not, huh?



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