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Thread #98985   Message #1968857
Posted By: jazzhistoria
15-Feb-07 - 02:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Hut-Sut Song
Subject: RE: Origins: Hut-Sut Song -background?
Roger the Skiffler wrote (in the Gotariver Jazzmen thread): At last, a real Swede! Now we can find out if the Hut Sut Song is gibberish or really Swedish!

Well well well... I donĀ“t think that Messrs. Leo. V. Killion, Ted McMichael and Jack Owens were (are?) linguistic geniuses. They can certainly not have heard (or read) Swedish. There are some remote villages in northern Sweden with completely incomprehensible dialects, but not even there you can find anything like this... In fact, not a single syllable looks or sounds like Swedish!

(Yes, I know that they were joking!! But why Swedish? There must be other languages which sound almost like rillerah and a brawla, brawla sooit!)

Ingemar, Gothenburg, Sweden