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To: SunkenCiv

This is fascinating. Something you don’t think about is the history of the rhymes you repeat. To us it’s just a rhyme, but it has much hidden meaning.


3 posted on 08/30/2008 2:27:30 AM PDT by flaglady47 (South Ossetia = Kosovo - thanks Bill Clinton)
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To: flaglady47
This is fascinating. Something you don’t think about is the history of the rhymes you repeat. To us it’s just a rhyme, but it has much hidden meaning.

Not hidden, just forgotten.
4 posted on 08/30/2008 4:23:23 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: flaglady47

“Ring around the rosey” is really about the great plague of London in 1665.


7 posted on 08/30/2008 4:50:39 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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