On Fri, Jan 04, 2013, Donald Perley wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Aahz Maruch <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Square dance has moved somewhat in that direction; for example, "walk
>> around the left-hand lady" has been changed to "walk around your corner"
>> (which not-quite-coincidentally also has the advantage that the corner
>> woman no longer has to translate "left" to "right").
>
> Huh? When did this change happen? "Corner" was the usual term when I
> first square danced as a kid in 1960, and in plenty of old 78 rpm
> recordings (up to the 50's). There will be style difference from
> caller to caller and between regions, and square dance callers are
> especially prone to changing terms to make their patter fit with
> timing or rhyming.
Dunno, but the current Basic/Mainstream handbook contains this comment:
Square dancing is evolving towards a preference for "Walk Around the
Corner" instead of "All Around the Left-Hand Lady"....
http://callerlab.org/Default.aspx?tabid=610&id=7
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