23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
6:54 p.m.
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