I was updating one of my routines, and was going to ask the user to select an object to copy it's rotation (angle), so I was going to use
(initget "Select")
(setq Opt (getangle "\n Enter angle [Select object]: "))
But this will give you the default for 'south' with your current setup. I just tested, because that was just a guess that the letter stood for south, and sure enough if you enter 'n' = north, 'e' = east, 'w' = west.
Thought I would share incase someone else tried this one day, and got strange answers that they didn't expect.