Joanne in Cleveland, your's is a devotee's opinion, quite welcome to it. I still think that if you had frequent barn dances where all you danced was ECD, you'd get sick of it.

WAV, what is the cutoff date for English culture, the date that it became set in stone and incapable of change? For all your dreams of lawn tennis, it surpassed in popularity a very English pastime- archery. I think one of the Plain Tales from the Hills mentions this. I'm sure you could find some 1880s WAVs croaking that this newfangled game of French origins is ruining good old English culture.