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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]