[Callers] 'g' word

[Michael Barraclough via Callers]

I have been using the (non-)word 'jipc' with great success for many
years.
-- 
Michael Barraclough
michael at michaelbarraclough.com
www.michaelbarraclough.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Shapiro via Callers <callers at lists.sharedweight.net>
Reply-to: Gary Shapiro <lets-talk at garyes.com>
To: callers at lists.sharedweight.net
Subject: Re: [Callers] yet another gypsy substitute (YAGS)
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 14:03:14 -0800



In ECD, someone (I believe it was Fried de Metz Herman) came up with a
figure called face en face, with a French pronunciation. Not sure why it
wasn't face à face. I describe it as the last two-thirds of a 1-1/2 dos
à dos. 




On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Sivier via Callers
<callers at lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:

           I just had a thought for another possible substitute if we
        need to replace the term "gypsy".  This would be
        "vis-a-vis" (face to face).  I like this since it is in some
        sense similar to dos-a-dos (back to back) and makes them
        complimentary figures.  I think it suggests the importance of
        facing the person you are dancing with, making eye contact,
        though not necessarily staring, during the figure.  Since many
        of the figure names in country dance come from French words,
        sometimes corrupted by time and the folk process, it seems
        reasonable to borrow another French term.  I'm not aware of this
        term already being used for some other dance figure, let me know
        if it is.  Even though it has 3 syllables instead of 2 I kind of
        like the sound of "vis-a-vis and swing!"
        
           Just putting it out there for your consideration.
        
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