Russia "haitä" serves the same purpose. To direct animals to the left another series of terms is used.
In calling cattle in the field the following cries are used in the localities given: "boss, boss" (Conn.); "sake, sake" (Conn.); "coo, coo" ( Va.); "sook, sook," also "sookey" (Md.); "sookow" (Ala.); "tloñ, tloñ" (Russia); and for calling horses, "kope, kope " (Md. and Ala.); for calling sheep, "konanny" (Md.); for calling hogs "chee-oo-oo" (Va.)
The undersigned is desirous of collecting words and expressions (oaths excepted) used in addressing domesticated animals in all parts of the British Empire.
In particular he seeks information as to—
(1) The terms used to start, hasten, haw, gee, back and stop horses, oxen, camels, and other animals in harness;
(2) Terms used for calling in the field cattle, horses, mules, asses, camels, sheep, goats, swine, poultry, and other animals;
(3) Exclamations used in driving from the person domestic animals;
(4) Any expressions and inarticulate sounds used in addressing domestic animals for any purpose whatever (dogs and cats);
(5) References to information in works of travel and general literature will be very welcome.
Persons willing to collect and forward the above-mentioned data will confer great obligations on the writer; he is already indebted to many correspondents for kind replies to his appeal for the Counting-out Rhymes of Children, the results of which have been published in a volume with that title (Elliot Stock, London).
To indicate the value of vowels in English please use the vowel-signs of Webster's Unabridged, and in cases of difficulty spell phonetically.
All correspondence will be gratefully received, and materials used will be credited to the contributors.
University Club, New York City.
