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  2. Humpty Dumpty - Wikipedia

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    Humpty Dumpty is a character in an English nursery rhyme, probably originally a riddle and one of the best known in the English-speaking world. He is typically portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg , though he is not explicitly described as such.

  3. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Borogove: Following the poem Humpty Dumpty says: " 'borogove' is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round, something like a live mop." In Mischmasch borogoves are described differently: "An extinct kind of Parrot. They had no wings, beaks turned up, and made their nests under sun-dials: lived on veal."

  4. Tweedledum and Tweedledee - Wikipedia

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    The words "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum" make their first appearance in print as names applied to the composers George Frideric Handel and Giovanni Bononcini in "one of the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) epigrams", satirising disagreements between Handel and Bononcini, [2] written by John Byrom (1692–1763): [3] in his satire, from 1725.

  5. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The words closest to the rhyme that has survived were printed in 1767. Humpty Dumpty: Great Britain 1797 [44] The earliest known version was published in Samuel Arnold's Juvenile Amusements in 1797 [44] Hush Little Baby 'Hush Little baby, don't say a word' United States 1918 [45]

  6. Humpty Dumpty really does fall off the wall at amusement park

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    On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...

  7. Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames: The d'Antin Manuscript

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    Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty Had a great fall. And all the king's horses And all the king's men Can't put Humpty Dumpty Together again. Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent Indolent qui ne sort cesse Indolent qui ne se mène Qu'importe un petit d'un petit Tout Gai de Reguennes. A ...

  8. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

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    "Somforbe" could possibly be a noun, possibly a slurred verb phrase. In the sense that it is a slurred verb, it could be the word "stumbled", as in Sam fell onto the drunk side and stumbled on a girl. However, not all nonsense verse relies on word play. Some simply illustrate nonsensical situations.

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