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This was kind of a game I played with my kids when they were in elementary school and had to look up vocabulary words for homework. There was a hit song that went...one step forward two steps back. Well we were doing this with looking up words and flipping through the pages of the dictionary. We called it the definition two step instead of the Texas two step. granted this is going back maybe 18 years
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Then there's the Aztec two-step, AKA Montezuma's revenge.
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in another part of the world aka delhi belly, which you could get from patting a dilli billi.
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With today's word (as with many here) my mind flew to the first time I learned it, while reading Poe's The Raven:
"Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore". Appropriate timing, as we've just passed Poe's 201st birthday on January 19. Thank you for your wonderful world of words, and all they convey.
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Of all the lost persons in books Lenore certainly is the most larmoyant poetically lost one of all.
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Surcease... I like the way Shakespeare used it in the Scotish Play.
Macbeth:
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well
It were done quickly. If th' assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease, success: that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all—here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We'd jump the life to come.
Macbeth Act 1, scene 7, 1–7
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