BeauDangles, as far as I know, mazurkas came from Poland, perhaps by a circuitous route, but a Polish dance.

Leeneia, maybe because it's summer things will take more time. Yours is the sort of thread I'd latch onto immediately, but I just got back from holiday and today is my first day to start an overview of what's been happening here. I prefer to let the chatters chat and the bickerers bicker, and trace the threads I want to keep an eye on, just in case they fall off the one-day default listing. I try not to post if I've nothing to say, unless I want to refresh. Could be that others do the same?