This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Edit: 24/11/2006 - The version that was previously here had "judge" in place of "priest" and "rooster" in place of "cock", neither of which are in the original form of the rhyme. I have added a note at the bottom of the rhyme about these subsititions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.170.194.17 ( talk) 03:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
The Origin and History quotes "The rhyme is derived from a Hebrew hymn in Sepher Haggadah". This looks to me to be a reference to the Aramaic hymn Chad Gadya sung at the Passover Seder and recorded in the Haggadah of Pesach. The source (Reference 1, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 6]) claims this is the origin of the tale, but variants are found around the world, and it might be safer to say that it's the earliest example of this type of cumulative tale that we have.-- Annielogue ( talk) 07:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Randolph Caldecott illustration2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 30, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-04-30. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng { chat} 22:13, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I think that this poem is an excellent example of deeply nested subordinate clauses (humorous here, but normally a writing style that one should avoid), and that a reference to its syntactic structure should be added. I have added one, but it's not directly relevant. Better would be a reference suggesting that too-deep a nesting can be very puzzling. Vjohns46 ( talk) 11:06, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
This is the house. This is the house the malt lay in. This is the house the malt the rat ate lay in. This is the house the malt the rat the cat killed ate lay in. This is the house the malt the rat the cat the dog worried killed ate lay in.
I seem to distinctly recall that this article previously gave the full text of this nursery rhyme. Why has it been removed? Old as it is, it surely cannot be because it is copyrighted! The Grand Rascal ( talk) 14:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Oops. Thanks. ( non-admin closure) — BarrelProof ( talk) 23:47, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
– per MOS:CT (or the first topic could be This is the house that Jack built per MOS:INCIPIT). Note that there are two plays with article titles that currently differ only by the capitalization of "that". NGram usage is mixed. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Edit: 24/11/2006 - The version that was previously here had "judge" in place of "priest" and "rooster" in place of "cock", neither of which are in the original form of the rhyme. I have added a note at the bottom of the rhyme about these subsititions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 221.170.194.17 ( talk) 03:36, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
The Origin and History quotes "The rhyme is derived from a Hebrew hymn in Sepher Haggadah". This looks to me to be a reference to the Aramaic hymn Chad Gadya sung at the Passover Seder and recorded in the Haggadah of Pesach. The source (Reference 1, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales: A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England, p. 6]) claims this is the origin of the tale, but variants are found around the world, and it might be safer to say that it's the earliest example of this type of cumulative tale that we have.-- Annielogue ( talk) 07:16, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Randolph Caldecott illustration2.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 30, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-04-30. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng { chat} 22:13, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
I think that this poem is an excellent example of deeply nested subordinate clauses (humorous here, but normally a writing style that one should avoid), and that a reference to its syntactic structure should be added. I have added one, but it's not directly relevant. Better would be a reference suggesting that too-deep a nesting can be very puzzling. Vjohns46 ( talk) 11:06, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
This is the house. This is the house the malt lay in. This is the house the malt the rat ate lay in. This is the house the malt the rat the cat killed ate lay in. This is the house the malt the rat the cat the dog worried killed ate lay in.
I seem to distinctly recall that this article previously gave the full text of this nursery rhyme. Why has it been removed? Old as it is, it surely cannot be because it is copyrighted! The Grand Rascal ( talk) 14:54, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Withdrawn. Oops. Thanks. ( non-admin closure) — BarrelProof ( talk) 23:47, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
– per MOS:CT (or the first topic could be This is the house that Jack built per MOS:INCIPIT). Note that there are two plays with article titles that currently differ only by the capitalization of "that". NGram usage is mixed. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:25, 2 May 2024 (UTC)