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Where does the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty originate from?

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The rhyme was first printed in 1810 and became famous through Lewis Caroll's book, 'Alice Through the Looking Glass', where Humpty Dumpty is shown as a round ... read more

Humpty Dumpty was a common"nickname", used in 15th century England, to describe large people. This had led to many ideas as to who, or what, the Humpty Dumpty in the nursery rhyme really was. The idea that 'Humpty Dumpty' was a powerful cannon, used during the English Civil War (1642-49), is one of the ideas taken most seriously. read more

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term"humpty dumpty" referred to a drink of brandy boiled with ale in the seventeenth century. The riddle probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that"humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century reduplicative slang for a short and clumsy person. read more

Over the course of its history, Humpty Dumpty has gone from a simple childish riddle to a popular nursery rhyme and an immortalised character in Lewis Carroll's classic, Through the Looking Glass. The simplest explanation for the rhyme is that it is a child's riddle where the answer is an egg. read more

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