skip to my lou

Lynne Murphy lynnem at COGS.SUSX.AC.UK
Fri Jul 7 15:51:30 UTC 2000


I've discovered that my students here think that the song "Skip to my
Lou" is "Skip to the Loo".  In other words, they've assumed since
childhood that this is a song about approaching the bathroom with a
bouncy step.  I am assuming that "Skip to my Lou" means "Skip to the
left" in square-dance-speak.  Is this correct?

Lynne

Dr M Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH
UK

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