Guys... (And girls of course) please help me out with this...
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
Where in the Nursery Rhyme does it say Humpty Dumpty is an egg...? and also how come we always think it broke its head???
Hehe... Please use the comment function not the tag board...
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Kaiting
Anyway just side tracking... How come everyone around me are getting attached???? hehe... Huiyi and I were saying we're gonna be the only "lao3 gu1 po2" left on the Earth... But don't get me wrong... am happy for all of you~!!!!!!
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Hey, u may know the answer. It seems that I come here like a stranger.
Humpty Dumpty is actually a clumsy person according to wikipedia.
The fact that Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century re-duplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish & Norwegian; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
Here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty
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