A chant of Wooo Pig Sooie is known worldwide as a Hog Call. So, one would have to suppose that illiterate pig farmers in England or American somehow managed to borrow a literary term for a non-literary purpose, and that's just not plausible at all.
Just like any good tradition, there are lots of versions of the Hog Call (even spellings). Sure, some Greek words are borrowed into English, but usually they relate to the Christian religion (like church or bishop) or they involve a higher literary register. Upon completion of the Wooo, both arms are brought straight down with fists clinched as if. Rather, the standard etymological resources, e.g. The Oxford English Dictionary, suggest that the sooey might be a call based on English sow, which used to be pronounced like "soo." This word sow and the sw- in swine do appear to be related to Greek ὕς and Latin sus by a common inheritance from their ancestral language, Proto-Indo-European. But common descent from Greek's ancestor does not mean it goes back to Greek. Cousins, not mother-daughter.Īnother possibility is that sooey is simply an onomatopoeic word without an etymology, like shoo, to ward off flies.
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