[SCA-Dance] Evolution and dating of ECD

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 03:28:45PM -0500, Alex Clark wrote:

> One other fault in this quote is that Sharp took to using "Longways" to 
> mean "longways for as many as will", and as a result gave misleading 
> statistics. As a matter of fact, the large majority of first edition dances 
> are in longways formations, but about forty of those are not "for as many 
> as will".

Aren't those other dances the ones he calls "longs-for-four, six or
eight performers"?

-- Gregory