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Illustration of the poem from the 1901 Book of Nursery Rhymes "One, Two, Three, Four, Five" is one of many counting-out rhymes. It was first recorded in Mother Goose's Melody around 1765. Like most versions until the late 19th century, it had only the first stanza and dealt with a hare, not a fish: One, two, three, four and five, I caught a ...
The slippery dick wrasse is a small fish that can reach a maximum length of 35 cm (14 in). [2] It has a thin, elongate body with a terminal mouth, and its body coloration has three phases during its life: The terminal phase is when the fish becomes a male, so the body coloration turns to green with two longitudinal dark stripes.
The rhyme was first printed in 1820 by James Hogg in Jacobite Reliques. Apple Pie ABC: United Kingdom 1871 [7] Edward Lear made fun of the original rhyme in his nonsense parody "A was once an apple pie". Akka bakka bonka rakka: Norway: 1901 [8] Nora Kobberstad's Norsk Lekebok (Book of Norwegian Games). [8] All The Pretty Little Horses
The rhyme appears in De Morgan's A Budget of Paradoxes (1872) along with a discussion of the possibilities that all particles may be made of clustered smaller particles, "and so down, for ever", and that planets and stars may be particles of some larger universe, "and so up, for ever".
The rhyme is thought by some commentators to have originated as a counting-out rhyme. [1] Westmorland shepherds in the nineteenth century used the numbers Hevera (8), Devera (9) and Dick (10) which are from the language Cumbric. [1] The rhyme is thought to have been based on the astronomical clock at Exeter Cathedral. The clock has a small hole ...
The Opies have argued for an identification of the original Bobby Shafto with a resident of Hollybrook, County Wicklow, Ireland, who died in 1737. [1] However, the tune derives from the earlier "Brave Willie Forster", found in the Henry Atkinson manuscript from the 1690s, [3] and the William Dixon manuscript, from the 1730s, both from north-east England; besides these early versions, there are ...
Scotties, Jocks [55] Macs, Sweaties (offensive; from rhyming slang "Sweaty Sock" for Jock). Scunthorpe Scunnys, Scuntys Selkirk Souters Shackerstone Shaggers Shankhill Shankys, Wanky Shankys (pejorative) Shavington Tramps [citation needed] Shaw Gorbies Shelf Stackers Sheffield Dee Dars, Steelmekkers [6] Shepshed Sheep-shits (pejorative) Shepton ...
Blue's Clues is an American live-action/animated educational children's television series that premiered on Nickelodeon on September 8, 1996. [1] Producers Angela Santomero, Todd Kessler, and Traci Paige Johnson combined concepts from child development and early-childhood education with innovative animation and production techniques that helped their viewers learn.