The origin of Miss Muffet is the pith of numerous urban legends. But this one sounds convincing. Watch what you sing to your kid.
Posted by Echo/Lavanya on
Friday, September 29, 2006 at 9:24 PM |Permalink
I'd rather prefer lounging on a tuffet( or a comfortably appointed thinnai) despite the threat of spiders than getting prepared to wrestle with my monday. Most nursery rhymes seem to have disturbing undertones. The rhyming is all that matters to children and most people and it is perhaps better they have remained so. We wouldn't want children learning about historic allusions to the bubonic plague, beheadings or finding that Master Tommy Stout was a later addition to the original where the poor kitty is drowned. You would find this site interesting. http://www.rhymes.org.uk/nursery-rhyme.htm
Your website is charming and engaging as ever. I visit often even though I am too lazy to post any comments. Keep writing. :)
Aravind.
Oh, I remembered. Whatever happened to Alwar the bookseller?
Aravind: Thanks. I never got a chance to check out Alwar. Will definitely keep you posted if I manage to find something. The rhymes site is very interesting btw.
So, we are curious now?
My folks named me Lavanya, and it does have a meaning.
I named myself Echo, for this blog. And that has a meaning too.
Therefore, I have more than one name; I can walk; I can talk; I can read; I can even write; I can count - 9 'I's already and that is absolutely disgusting; I can also lie about numbers.
Do you need to hear more?
I'd rather prefer lounging on a tuffet( or a comfortably appointed thinnai) despite the threat of spiders than getting prepared to wrestle with my monday.
Most nursery rhymes seem to have disturbing undertones. The rhyming is all that matters to children and most people and it is perhaps better they have remained so. We wouldn't want children learning about historic allusions to the bubonic plague, beheadings or finding that Master Tommy Stout was a later addition to the original where the poor kitty is drowned.
You would find this site interesting.
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/nursery-rhyme.htm
Your website is charming and engaging as ever. I visit often even though I am too lazy to post any comments.
Keep writing. :)
Aravind.
Oh, I remembered. Whatever happened to Alwar the bookseller?
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Anonymous |
7:00 PM, October 02, 2006
Aravind: Thanks. I never got a chance to check out Alwar. Will definitely keep you posted if I manage to find something. The rhymes site is very interesting btw.
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Echo/Lavanya |
9:52 AM, October 15, 2006