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Hi TCL, yes you are right, and there are many other examples like it, and so that's why I want to establish what the written tradition is rather than to rely on my ears or anyone else's. But I guess there aren't all that many novels around featuring acrobats, ha ha ha. As usual, the key to it all is probably to be found in the comic books� (Socko! Pow! Wham! Splat!) I wish someone would create a comprehensive internet dictionary devoted to "sound words", you know, like "urgh" and "eew" and such. I'd like that. Seen anything like that? I've seen a few feeble attempts but nothing to write home about.
It is the English "hup word" I am after, not the Swedish one, but I enjoyed your cat yams example very much as that happens to sound quite a bit like the Swedish word for describing what a cat does, much more so than "miaows" anyway. What is your regional accent, TCL? Don't know why but I used to think you were Scottish, but I looked Corby up in Wikipedia just now and it's in the Midlands�? (I'm just assuming your username alludes to where you're from, but maybe it doesn't. Never mind me:-)