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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. 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 ...

  4. Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

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    Outgrabe: Humpty Dumpty says " 'outgribing' is something between bellowing and whistling, with a kind of sneeze in the middle". [18] Carroll's book appendices suggest it is the past tense of the verb to 'outgribe', connected with the old verb to 'grike' or 'shrike', which derived 'shriek' and 'creak' and hence 'squeak'.

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    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] English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected and notated a version from Endicott, Franklin County, Virginia in 1918. I Can Sing a Rainbow

  7. Homophonic translation - Wikipedia

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    Homophonic translation renders a text in one language into a near-homophonic text in another language, usually with no attempt to preserve the original meaning of the text. For example, the English "sat on a wall" / ˌ s æ t ɒ n ə ˈ w ɔː l / is rendered as French "s'étonne aux Halles" [setɔn o al] (literally "gets surprised at the Paris ...

  8. House Dems ripped for social media post on key issue ... - AOL

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    "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Egg prices soared—he couldn't afford it all!" GOP Rep. Claudia Tenney posted on X. "Ways and Means Dems tweeted with smiles so wide, While the cost of eggs kept ...

  9. Tribrach (poetry) - Wikipedia

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    Humpty / Dumpty / sat on a / wall. In the music which is traditionally used for this nursery rhyme (see Humpty Dumpty), the words "Humpty" and "Dumpty" are given a quarter note + eighth note, while "sat on a" has three eighth notes. The substitution of a tribrach for a trochee is often associated with children's poetry.