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The rhyme is first recorded in The Newest Christmas Box published in London around 1797. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe 'Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo' Unknown [j] < 1820 [124] Origin unknown, the rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820. Frère Jacques 'Brother John', 'Are You Sleeping', 'Are you sleeping, Brother John?' France: c. 1780 [125]
In his The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (1888), the American collector of folklore, Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903), quoted an old lady who remembered a longer version of this rhyme as being used in Wrentham, Massachusetts as early as 1780. Beyond the first four lines, it proceeded: Nine, ten, kill a fat hen; Eleven, twelve, bake it well;
concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish , extinguish pneumatic , rheumatic
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. Because rhyming dictionaries are based on pronunciation, they are difficult to compile.
The rhyme is first recorded in a manuscript of around 1815 and was collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century. [1] Jumping candlesticks was a form of fortune telling and a sport. Good luck was said to be signalled by clearing a candle without extinguishing the flame. [1]
One of the most commonly used modern versions of the rhyme is: The cat sat asleep by the side of the fire, The mistress snored loud as a pig
Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven’t the heart to poke poor Billy. [2] The above meter and line length, often with rhyme scheme AABB., [3] was subsequently relaxed with alternative rhyming scheme ABAB as illustrated by the following verse from a 1904 collection of Willie Ballads:
"Fire" is a song by American rapper Busta Rhymes. It was released as the lead single from his fourth studio album Anarchy on July 29, 2000, by Flipmode Entertainment and Elektra Records . The song peaked at number 35 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, number 57 on the UK Singles Chart , while failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 .