14 Oct
2025
14 Oct
'25
5:54 a.m.
I recently attended a ceilidgh in London. The caller called Flying Scotsman which is a
longways set. They arranged it by the taller on the left and designated them 2s. The
shorter line 1s. Thought it was a clever way to set it up. They would call something
like “2s line arch, 1s line lead through”. This may be common in th UK, but it was new
to me (a travelling US person)
As far as to say whether certain roll terms should or shouldn’t be used, well…I’m not
wading into that.
Rich
On Oct 13, 2025, at 9:35 PM, Michael Fuerst via Contra
Callers <contracallers(a)lists.sharedweight.net> wrote:
Before the rise to prominence of larks and robins, callers and dance transcriptions would
occasionally refer to the gents'/ladies' line as the line in which gets/ladies
would line up for a proper dance.
Should this now rarely used designation be declared obsolete or deprecated, or should we
now occasionally refer to the gents' and ladies' lines
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