[Callers] Gypsy Synopsis

Charles M. Hannum via Callers callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Thu Oct 29 18:27:56 PDT 2015


While we're complaining, I think I object to having dance terminology drawn
from a dead writer's drug trip.

As for “mad robin”, I'm still for renaming it “angry bird”.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Jacob or Nancy Bloom via Callers <
callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

> Lewis Carroll may have defined the word that way on one occasion, but
> Humpty Dumpty defined the word as "to go round and round like a gyroscope."
>  And Humpty Dumpty was an expert on getting words to mean what you pay them
> to mean!
>
> And William Butler Yeats said, in his poem The Second Coming, "Turning and
> turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer."  So his
> meaning was clearly a spiral in which one turns.
>
> Jacob
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 7:44 PM, John Sweeney via Callers <
> callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, but in 1855, in the magazine Misch-Masch, Lewis Carroll defined
>> Gyre
>> as follows:
>> "Gyre, verb (derived from GYAOUR or GIAOUR, 'a dog'). To scratch like a
>> dog."
>>
>> So, nope, nothing to do with gyration!
>>
>> And, I have always understood it to be pronounced with a hard "g" as in
>> "give".  My dictionary agrees with me. So, no doesn't sound like "gypsy".
>>
>> Of course, you can still use the term and pronounce it "jire" (based on
>> its
>> other definitions).
>>
>> You see, words never mean what you think they do! :-)
>>
>> Happy dancing,
>> John
>>
>> John Sweeney, Dancer, England john at modernjive.com 01233 625 362
>> http://www.contrafusion.co.uk for Dancing in Kent
>>
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