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  2. This Little Piggy - Wikipedia

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    The full rhyme continued to appear, with slight variations, in many late 18th- and early 19th-century collections. Until the mid-20th century, the lines referred to "little pigs". [4] It was the eighth most popular nursery rhyme in a 2009 survey in the United Kingdom. [6]

  3. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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    "The Three Little Pigs" was included in The Nursery Rhymes of England (London and New York, c.1886), by James Halliwell-Phillipps. [4] The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. [5]

  4. Tippecanoe and Tyler Too - Wikipedia

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    "Little Pigs" is not well-documented, but the available evidence suggests that there was a substantial adaptation of the score for "Tip and Ty". [ 3 ] A historical society in Madison, Wisconsin , claimed that a local, the young nephew of future U.S. Supreme Court justice Levi Woodbury , wrote the first verses of the song and that its premiere ...

  5. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell. Mary Had a Little Lamb 'Mary had a Little Lamb, Little Lamb, Little Lamb' United States 1830 [64] First published by the Boston publishing firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon, as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale on May 24, 1830. Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary: Great Britain 1744 [65]

  6. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? - Wikipedia

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    "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" is a popular song written by Frank Churchill with additional lyrics by Ann Ronell, [1] which originally featured in the 1933 Disney cartoon Three Little Pigs, where it was sung by Fiddler Pig and Fifer Pig (voiced by Mary Moder and Dorothy Compton, respectively) [2] as they arrogantly believe the Big Bad Wolf (voiced by Billy Bletcher) is not a serious ...

  7. Five Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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    The novel's title is from the nursery rhyme This Little Piggy, which is used by Poirot to organise his thoughts regarding the investigation. Each of the five little pigs mentioned in the nursery rhyme is used as a title for a chapter in the book, corresponding to the five suspects. [8]

  8. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Note rhyme in vrbi zasvrbi. Мало сутра (malo sutra), literally "a little bit tomorrow", has a similar meaning as "all my eye". Seychellois Creole, also known as Kreol or Seselwa (creole spoken in Seychelles) – lannen de mil zanmen is used, which means "year two thousand and never". It is a fairly new expression used mainly among the ...

  9. Rhyme - Wikipedia

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    Rhymes may be classified according to their position in the verse: Tail rhyme (also called end rhyme or rime couée) is a rhyme in the final syllable(s) of a verse (the most common kind). Internal rhyme occurs when a word or phrase in the interior of a line rhymes with a word or phrase at the end of a line, or within a different line.