Hello, Mo. No, I don't think our callers are trained. And I find that kindly-meant advice meets only with defensiveness. However, it seems that there's now an experienced caller working behind the scenes whose advice is being taken.

For one thing, we not longer follow somebody-or-other's dictate as to speed, Instead, speeds are tried out and changed as needed to fit the group.

But none of that was on my mind when I started this thread. This thread is a protest about composers of dances and music who waste my time with precious titles and nonstandard spellings. I'm already volunteering to help refugees, to paint my church, to play music in church and to lead my band. I don't need them wasting my time with dance titles like "72%".