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Tue 20 Feb, 2007 12:02 pm
I came across the phrase "all Chaw Hay" in a reference to square dancing. Is this a real term, or is it the rural/phonological rendering of a term, perhaps not originally English?
Does anyone have any ideas about this? I'm totally ignorant about square dancing.
I'm not a square dance person, but it sounds kind of like a mondegreen to me.
Square dance terminology
Yeah, that was my impression, but I can't reconstruct it into anything sensible. It may just be such specialized terminology that unless you know square dancing well, even the original wouldn't mean anything.
I love mondegreens!
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