It’s called the hokey pokey in the US… the dance name may have originated in the 1940s (when it was a popular music hall song and novelty dance) – it perhaps comes from hocus pocus Hocus pocus, the magic formula used by conjurers to help distract their audience and also once used by jugglers, is another interestingContinue reading “Hokey Cokey”
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My Word!
“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets Sometimes I’m on my way home and a word or phrase pops into my head, and I think where does it come from, how did it get to be the word it is today? So I haveContinue reading “My Word!”
That Word... where's it come from? 