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| jmfbahciv (jmfbahciv@aol.com) |
2006/09/29 06:32 |
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From: jmfbahciv@aol.com
Subject: Re: Some sonofabitch has my computer.
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In article <efb8lp$nnt$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>,
Bryce Utting <butting@ihug.co.nz> wrote:
>jmfbahciv@aol.com <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>> Adam Funk <a24061@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>My grandfather used to shout "soo-WEE" to call the cows in for
>>>feeding.
>>
>> That was pig language, not cow language. Cow language for
>> calling them in to milk and feed was COM-bas. You didn't need
>> to tell them much if there was feeding involved.
>
>Surely you of all people would've learned by now not to assert
>absolutes based on limited samples?
I'm telling you what my area said.
>
> If you see my cow, tell her hurry home,
> I ain't had no sweet milk since she's been gone.
> She better soo, cow, soo--soo, cow, soo,
> Oh second time you will do,
> I ain't had no sweet milk since my cow been gone.
>
>"Soo Cow Soo" by Memphis Minnie, from a transcription by Woody Mann,
>who offers a footnote on "soo":
>
>: Spelling used on many recordings. Properly spelled "sue", the word
>: means "to entreat" or "to summon" and is commonly used for calling
>: cows.
>
>(Mann, Woody (1973): Six Early Blues Guitarists, Oak Publications, but
>I'm offering this merely as a data point and not as a definite
>authority on the term's origin.)
>
>Recorded around 1931/2 according to the following:
>
> http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/BLUES%20&%20GOSPEL/blues_m4.htm
>
>and there's even a sample at:
>
> http://www.cr.nps.gov/delta/blues/people/memphis_minnie.htm
>
>(annoyingly, the only audio I've got on my shelves is Columbia's
>"Hoodoo Lady (1933-1937)", which doesn't have Bumble Bee either.)
>
>Going by the (limited) context, it looks like it surely would've
>current in all sorts of places around the South (though maybe not all
>of the South?) in the 30s.
I never heard the word used with cows. I've heard it used with
pigs. Perhaps it's regional. I wonder words are used in other
countries?
>
>>>Similarly, "s/he" is pronounced "soo-HEE" to call the cow-orkers
>>>together.
>>
>> You have forgotten animal farm talk.
>
>I dunno, it sounds an awful lot like the Aussie "coooEEE!", which can
>carry a *long* way.
But cows don't go far away.
/BAH
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