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"Eeny, meeny, miny, moe" – which can be spelled a number of ways – is a children's counting-out rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is chosen.
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
The French rhyme Une balle en or, tu sors: "A ball made of gold, you're out" Counting out game played by Igbo children from Nigeria (These rhymes may have many local or regional variants.) Eeny, meeny, miny, moe; 10 Little Indians; Five Little Ducks; Ip dip; One, Two, Three, Four, Five; Tinker, Tailor (traditionally played in England) Yan Tan ...
This list (like the article List of the Child Ballads) also serves as a link to articles about the songs, which may use a very different song title. The songs are listed in the index by accession number, rather than (for example) by subject matter or in order of importance. Some well-known songs have low Roud numbers (for example, many of the ...
The spelling of their names changed to Meeny, Miney and (sometimes) Mo. In the comics, the trio spoke English in a style roughly mimicking the Three Stooges . While Meeny's name no longer exactly matched the word "meany", he was still portrayed as a wannabe tough guy.
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Singing games began to be recorded and studied seriously in the nineteenth century as part of the wider folklore movement. Joseph Strutt's Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Robert Chambers’s Popular Rhymes of Scotland (1826), James Orchard Halliwell's The Nursery Rhymes of England (1842) and Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales (1849), and G. F. Northal's English Folk Rhymes ...
En Den Dino is an Israeli counting rhyme. It was featured on an episode of Sesame Street. It's an Israeli version of the Eeny, meeny, miny, moe counting method. [1] [2] A variant of the song is also popular in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia. The lyrics in this version are as follows: "En ten tini, sava raka tini, sava ...