A year or two ago I was at a dance where Rhodri Davies called some squares with 
Allemande Alphabet figures, of the form:

Allemande (corner) left to an Allemande X: Pass your partner and swing the next.
Allemande left to an Allemande R (appears in MWSD as Allemande Thar): chain 
right then left to a back-up star.

Where can I find more of these? Were there well-agreed uses of each letter, or 
did the caller just make up something that rhymed as well as being danceable?

Edmund Croft,
Cambridge, UK

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