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cancan. University scholars in Paris often prefaced their eru- dite arguments about anything and everything with the Latin word quamquam, “although . . .” This ridiculous habit grew so common that the word soon meant “a piece of nonsense,” qua- mquam coming to be pronounced concon. Carousing French students of the 1830s, punning bawdily on the sound of concon, then made it the name of the high-kicking, skirt-lifting dance of Parisian cafés. So goes the most interesting story of the ori- gin of cancan. Other experts say it is simply a repetitive French compound based on can, without further elaboration. |