Greetings to all:
Beth wrote: "Seeing it in the dance below implies to me that he thinks
quite highly of himself,....."
Yes, I do think highly of myself.
Mark wrote: " Should you spell Allen's name backwards, you'll get petrO
nellA."
No. Should you spell Petronella backwards, you get Allen Ortep.
Only after the dance "Allen Ortep's First Contra" had been popular for some
years, and had become well established as a "walnut" of the dance form, did
someone think to reverse both the move and it's spelling
Regards
Allen