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January 20, 2017 11:52 am at 11:52 am #619060B1g B0yParticipant
The ryhme never said that he was an egg
January 21, 2017 10:20 pm at 10:20 pm #1210881Lilmod UlelamaidParticipantIn Alice and Wonderland it says that he’s an egg.
January 22, 2017 12:24 pm at 12:24 pm #1210882Avi KParticipantSome say that he was King Richard III. Some say that he was a siege engine used during the English Civil War.
January 22, 2017 4:25 pm at 4:25 pm #1210883twistedParticipantThe alter ego of Dumpty
January 22, 2017 8:40 pm at 8:40 pm #1210884B1g B0yParticipantLewis Carroll (the author of Alice in Wonderland) did not invent the ryhme. Therefore, at most his referring to Humpty as an egg is an assumption.
January 23, 2017 2:59 am at 2:59 am #1210885LightbriteParticipantMaybe there is an oral Humpty Dumpty tale that we don’t know about yet.
January 23, 2017 3:20 pm at 3:20 pm #1210886hujuParticipantDemocratic-Farm-Labor Senator from Minnesota in the 50’s and 60’s, ran for president in 1968, lost to Tricky Dick.
January 23, 2017 9:06 pm at 9:06 pm #1210887The chinMemberPersonally I think the whole song is a little bit gruesome to be singing to children in the first place.
January 23, 2017 10:39 pm at 10:39 pm #1210888mobicoParticipantWhat I want to know is who thought that the king’s horses had a chance of repairing him in the first place.
January 24, 2017 2:00 am at 2:00 am #1210889LightbriteParticipantWeren’t heart transplants assured something like 50yo, and now they’re permitted.
The King’s Horses were with it, obviously.
January 24, 2017 10:53 pm at 10:53 pm #1210890B1g B0yParticipantThe Chin;
Who are you to decide what is a gruesome song and what isn’t?
Ring around the rosy is a song about the Black Death and I don’t hear you speaking up about that.
January 24, 2017 11:42 pm at 11:42 pm #1210891👑RebYidd23ParticipantRing around the rosy is not about the Black Death.
January 25, 2017 3:23 am at 3:23 am #1210892LightbriteParticipantRing around the rosie
Pocket full of posie
Ashes ashes
We all fall down
—Some internet sources say that it’s false. They are false.
“Ring around the rosie,
A pocket full of posies;
[one of the superstitious ways used by people in the Middle Ages to try and fend off the plague was to stuff their pockets with posies (flowers)]
Atischoo, atischoo,
[sneezing was also an early sign of the plague if it was a pneumonic plague; however, not all types of plague involved sneezing]
or, Ashes, ashes
[the dead were often cremated]
We all fall down.
[most of the people strickened with the plague died]”
Sewer History dot com…
But if you want more academic sources, search it in Google Books.
Check out: What Did I Just Say!?!: How New Insights Into Childhood Thinking Can Help …
By Denis Donovan, M.D., Deborah McIntyre, R.N.
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