In a message dated 9/28/05 5:19:26 PM, kmiller at BIB-ARCH.ORG writes: > Got a letter to the editor that read: “The never-ending, overly personal > bleating and sooking from your contributors has finally defeated me.” > > Sooking? > > Is it Yinglish? Slang? Where’s it come from? > > SOOK is a call to pigs in American rural English, at least in the upper midwest.