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The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell in 1842, but there is evidence that it was popular in Britain and America at least in the early nineteenth century. [3] Various persons have been identified with Lucy Locket and Kitty Fisher. Halliwell suggested that they were "two celebrated courtesans of the time of Charles II", but no ...
In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish
Cary Grant's character teaches rhyming slang to his female companion in Mr. Lucky (1943), describing it as 'Australian rhyming slang'. Rhyming slang is also used and described in a scene of the 1967 film To Sir, with Love starring Sidney Poitier , where the English students tell their foreign teacher that the slang is a drag and something for ...
A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.
In Scotland a rhyme from the same period is recorded as Dowdy-cow, dowdy-cow, ride away heame, Thy house is burnt, and thy bairns are tean. [7] American names include “ladybug”, first recorded in 1699, [8] although the equivalent rhyme is not mentioned until the 19th century, as in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). [9]
From the Nursery rhyme One, Two, Buckle my shoe; Three, Four, Knock at the door. 5 Man alive [3] Rhymes with "five". 6 Half a dozen [5] A common phrase meaning six units (see "12" below). Tom Mix Rhymes with "six". 7 Lucky [3] 7 is considered a lucky number in some cultures; see also "73". 8 Garden gate [5] Rhymes with "eight". One fat lady
Anthony Horowitz used the rhyme as the organising scheme for the story-within-a-story in his 2016 novel Magpie Murders and in the subsequent television adaptation of the same name. [17] The nursery rhyme's name was used for a book written by Mary Downing Hahn, One for Sorrow: A Ghost Story. The book additionally contains references to the ...
The scholars Iona and Peter Opie noted that many variants have been recorded, some with additional words, such as "O. U. T. spells out, And out goes she, In the middle of the deep blue sea" [3] or "My mother [told me/says to] pick the very best one, and that is Y-O-U/you are [not] it"; [3] while another source cites "Out goes Y-O-U." [4] "Tigger" is also used instead of "tiger" in some ...