I had to laugh - unbelievable! "Sook" and "sooking" are common expressions here in eastern Canada, and we get a lot of ridicule for it from people in other parts of the country where the word is apparently unknown. And suddenly I'm hearing it from, literally, the farthest opposite corner of the planet. So I gurgled it: Australia, New Zealand, and Atlantic Canada. Who'da thunk it? Product of our shared Scottish ancestors.

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