| Floyd,
I quite agree with you. But I don't think that this sort of thing is limited to dance/ceroc. Examples are:
Hamburgers - how many people go to get a hamburger, and how many go to get a MacDonald?
Football. People go to watch football, but would quite often refer to it by the name of the club they watch.
Indeed, it's only in certain parts of the country that ceroc would be used as the way to describe the local jive night. In Bristol and Brighton, then people would say 'can you LeRoc to this'. Indeed, when I first started dancing in Brighton, I was known as 'Ceroc Steve' (although, that's now changed!).
Personally, I call it jive, but I really don't think that it matters too much - except when people start to think that their own organisation is the limit to 'jiving'.
Steve |