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Must......resist.......temptation 
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Well, I suppose if the definiton of lady involves accepting second best [all due modesty-e].
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Apparently everyone here knows this word except me. I did a Search on it, and it's been in half a dozen posts. I read it in that wayzgoose site while I was catching my beloved Aunt up a little bit on what's happening on here. He looked it up, and said chorean refers to dance (which I did figure), and that terpsi means fond of, or something like that. I thought he could do with a smile, so I told him I am terpsimaverick!
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Dear Jackie: If you "muse" it will come to you.
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Terpsichore, as Dr. Bill hinted, is the Greek muse of dance and choral music. It was my screen name in other cyber-elsewheres out there until here came I, linguistic superiors encountered, and to humble down a bit resolved.  BTW, loved the wayzgoose site!
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chorea show up too, as a medical term, for Huntington's chorea, (a genetic disease,that effects the central nervous system, and the disease that killed Woody Guthry) and non huntington's chorea, or St Vitus Dance, a bacterial infection of the nervous system, that is rather uncommon today. (it responds to anti biotics)
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There's also a chorea among the symptoms of acute rheumatic fever, another disease happily there's another thread - or is it another YART?) not seen very much today. But "choreiform movements" do occur in a variety of nervous system diseases...
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Here is URL with a good bit of information about Greek mythology, including the Nine Muses: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0881991.html
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Terpsichore got a toehold on Massachusetts in the early 1600's, but it didn't last. Thomas Morton set up a Maypole at 'MerryMount' and introduced Indian damsels to liquor, dancing, and worse. But Gov. Bradford sent Myles Standish to compel him to return to England. So there was no more morris dancing in Massachusetts for many a year. http://members.aol.com/srasmus/oldentext/merrymount.html
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