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Counting Out Rhyme
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Counting-Out Rhymes
Eeny, meeny, figgledy, fig. Delia, dolia, dominig, Ozy, pozy doma-nozy, Tee, tau, tut, Uggeldy, buggedy, boo! Out goes you. (no. 129) You can stand, And you can sit, But, if you play, You must be it. (no. 577) Counting-out rhymes are used by children between the ages of six and eleven as a special way of choosing it and beginning play. They may be short and simple ("O-U-T spells out/And out goes you") or relatively long and complicated; they may be composed of ordinary words, arrant nonsense, or a mixture of the two. Roger D. Abrahams and Lois Rankin have gathered together a definitive compendium of counting-out rhymes in English reported to 1980. These they discovered in over two hundred so...
Children's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms
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The Counting-Out Rhymes of Children - Their Antiquity, Origin, and Wide Distribution
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Counting-Out Rhymes of Children (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Counting-Out Rhymes of Children Among the Romans future events were prognosticated from the casting of lots. These lors were a kind of dice made either of wood, gold, or other material, with certain letters, words, or marks inscribed on them. They were thrown commonly into an urn, sometimes filled with water, and drawn out either by a boy or by the one who consulted the oracle. The priests of the temple interpreted the meaning of the lots as they were drawn out. The lots were sometimes thrown like common dice. At times it was decided by lot who was to preside at a meeting. Thus, at the committee for electing the consuls and creating the praetors, the consuls fixed by lot which o...
