On Thursday, August 23, 2012, Lisa Greenleaf wrote: > > > Thankfully yearn was changed to slice--Bob Isaacs was that you who came up > with slice?--because the former sounded too much like urine. Really. I > had dancers coming up and telling me that. When you call a yearn in Denmark > they all laugh because it sounds like the name Jørn (spelling may be > incorrect). > > In the 1997 book "Twirling Dervish Returns", under the description of "Hey Man", Paul Balliet writes that 'Becky Hill coined the term "Slice Left" to describe & call this fun progression.'
So it's at least as old as that. -Chris Page San Diego
