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[Lownumba]

For something that was not created in antiquity, there are a surprising number of variations as to the polka's exact origins. The spelling of the woman's name, the town in which she lived and the date she started hopping around vary from account to account.

And the Poles insist that the word is not a derivation of the Czech word for "half-step. It is the Polish word for woman, and the polka was originally a woman's dance.

Copernicus danced a mean polka, I hear.