Interesting. No, I've never heard of the expression "tataille" over here.

Hey Maz, if you would, send me an email.

Bryan, the Fontenot song made me think about it. So,
if it is La betaille (female/cow= La), could be pronounced like LáBéTaiéé,
Les Haricots also became Zydeco, so I'm puzzled.

I remember Alan Lomax saying that yippietaye (or something like that had a acadian/canadian origen.

Gus

I never thought about that, and I dont know the ins and outs of French grammar, but the ending has more of what I would consider a masculine sound. We pronounce it "la bétai".

Alan Lomax made a few speculations on his documentary that probably cant be proven either way, that's one of them. Still about my favorite documentary though.

If I remember right, I think Rockin' Sydney had a song called "There's a betaille in my room"

Like a Loup'Garou?

Someone I know from the internet told stories about a Poul'Garou down there.

In fact, I wrote a bad song about it.

Well, let's see it!! That poule garou sounds fearesome.

Someone famous said "If you want to see true horror, look into the eye of a chicken".