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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.
Gimble: Humpty Dumpty comments that it means: "to make holes like a gimlet." [18] Gyre: "To 'gyre' is to go round and round like a gyroscope." [18] Gyre is entered in the OED from 1420, meaning a circular or spiral motion or form; especially a
Other nonsense verse makes use of nonsense words—words without a clear meaning or any meaning at all. Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear both made good use of this type of nonsense in some of their verse. These poems are well formed in terms of grammar and syntax, and each nonsense word is of a clear part of speech.
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
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 ...
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 ...
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