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SERIOUS QUESTION IN NEED OF CLARIFICATION:
Whoever said Humpty Dumpty was an egg?
Whoever said Humpty Dumpty was an egg?
It doesn& #39;t say in the rhyme what he was. Come to think of it, there is a lot of information in that rhyme. And since most children& #39;s rhymes are very dark and do not have child-like themes, it is extremely likely that this character is a person who fell at a height
(or maybe that person just fell) and nobody can ever put him/her back.
To continue this thread, TIL, the earliest known version of Humpty Dumpty (let& #39;s abbreviate to HD because it& #39;s such a handful to type) was in the late 1790s. HD was like an old European slang for egg?
Haha! What a mouthful just for "egg"
Haha! What a mouthful just for "egg"
But during the 17th Century, HD referred to an alcoholic drink. So the slang that followed it referred to a person who is clumsy being in a state of inebriation.
