Talk:Passepied

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I've never heard of a passepied referred to as a paspy. Where does this term come from (I haven't been able to find it in any dictioanry I own) and why does passepied redirect here, rather than the other way around? Is paspy just some strange, phonetic attempt at pronouncing the original French term? Guermantes 17:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

IIRC "paspy" was used around Purcell's time. I agree that the article should be named "passepied" since that is used universally now (and obviously, paspy should redirect). Insouciance 19:28, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

Moved. Guermantes 00:36, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Also, the (wrong?) spelling "passpied" is all over the world. Something should be done or said here about that.Marius63 (talk) 13:11, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Paspe

If you google "paspe passepied", it seems that "paspe" is the Anglicized form of "passepied". The term, paspe, is used in John Playford as well as Purcell. --Komitsuki (talk) 14:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

--Komitsuki (talk) 14:20, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

That would seem to be a spelling variant of "paspy", already mentioned in the article (and indeed in the New Grove article on the subject). The OED lists another 18th-century variant spelling, "paspie" (but not "paspe"), and a 19th-century Scots spelling, "paspey".—Jerome Kohl (talk) 17:18, 25 February 2020 (UTC)