tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 28 04:53:46 2004
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Re: calling animals
> In a message dated 2004-04-27 2:13:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Didn't know that, and I lived next to a pig farm for 4 years... all I
>> heard
>> was
>> squeals... but that was in the UK.. is Suey a north american phrase or
>> is it
>> world wide?
>>
> i don't know how widespread the term is, but it's from the latin word for
> "pig", just as the term "bossy" is from latin for "cow".
> lay'tel SIvten
Pig -> swine -> suey...