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Re: Nursery Rhymes
« Reply #36 on: Saturday 29 August 15 19:12 BST (UK) »
I'm fine thankyou still laughing ! Sue

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« Reply #37 on: Wednesday 02 September 15 18:02 BST (UK) »
Does anyone remember Dr Foster went to Gloucester ?

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« Reply #38 on: Wednesday 02 September 15 18:20 BST (UK) »
Quote from: a-l on Wednesday 02 September 15 18:02 BST (UK)
Does anyone remember Dr Foster went to Gloucester ?   

............ in a shower of rain.
He stepped in a puddle
right up to his middle.
And he never went there again!!

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« Reply #39 on: Wednesday 02 September 15 19:52 BST (UK) »
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If Baa Baa Black Sheep is potentially racist....what about Mary had a Little Lamb whose fleece was white as snow  ???
Carol

Well, I don't know about you - but I have seen hundreds of sheep whose fleece is black  ;D ;D  Perhaps I need to clean my glasses!  ;D ;D  And the same can be said for those sheep whose fleece is white.  ;D

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« Reply #40 on: Thursday 03 September 15 09:09 BST (UK) »
The grand old Duke of York, was that a specific battle , does anyone know ?

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« Reply #41 on: Thursday 03 September 15 09:17 BST (UK) »
Supposedly the Battle of Wakefield - 1460 in the Wars of the Roses - but there are other candidates according to various entries on Mr Google.  :-\
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« Reply #42 on: Thursday 03 September 15 09:21 BST (UK) »
Quote from: a-l on Thursday 03 September 15 09:09 BST (UK)
The grand old Duke of York, was that a specific battle , does anyone know ? 

My Oxford Dictionary suggests it refers to Frederick Duke of York**, and the Flanders or Helders Campaigns but as Flanders is very flat it is thought the words were changed to deride him, and the original was "The King of France went up the hill with forty thousand men"............ no mention of which campaign he was on though!!   :-\

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« Reply #43 on: Thursday 03 September 15 09:21 BST (UK) »
Quote from: a-l on Thursday 03 September 15 09:09 BST (UK)
The grand old Duke of York, was that a specific battle , does anyone know ?

According to that great source of all wisdom  :P Wikipedia ... Prince Frederick, Duke of York commanded the army during the 1793 Flanders Campaign in the French Revolutionary Wars and the hill was Cassell. However this theory is disputed as the rhyme seems to predate this, though not quite in the same form:

"The King of France with forty thousand men,
Came up a hill and so came downe againe"

was written around 1642.

So, I guess no one really knows  ;)

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« Reply #44 on: Thursday 03 September 15 09:22 BST (UK) »
Sorry, we're all replying at the same time!

I love Nursery Rhymes, especially interesting where they originated!
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