Issue 855: Extra Information: S-Locomotion

Object

S-Locomotion (Dance)

Submitter

Walter Raffler (walraf)

Assigned to

Eric Ferguson

Priority

Normal

Disposition

Fixed

Description

Extra Information: ‘S-Locomotion’ In the “Scottish Country Dancer” No 21 October 2015 under ‘Letters to the editors’ , p.28 you find the following interesting letter about the pronunciation of ‘S-Locomotion’.

Dear Editor, At the recent AGM we were invited to dance the strathspey from book 41, which was incorrectly announced as “Ess-Locomotion”. The deviser, the late Ken Jones of Sheffield Branch wrote this dance in honour of our Branch President, Paul Bond. Ken knew that Paul had a passionate interest in steam engines and assumed, wrongly as it happens, that these were the type which hauled trains, hence “Locomotion”. However, he realized that by preceding this word with the letter “S”, he could point out that Paul, always a stirrer, but now getting elderly, caused, wherever he went, a “slow commotion”!

Joyce and Hugh Porteous, Sheffield Branch

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