Travel back to your days in pre-primary school and reminisce those wonderful nursery rhymes that you can still recall. There was Humpty Dumpty, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Mary Mary Quite Contrary, London Bridge is Falling Down… and the list is endless. But did you know that each of these have a story not so nursery-ish behind them? Here are a few interesting tidbits on what these rhymes were intended to be and how they evolved their present sing-song tale.
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king’s horses and all the king’s men Couldn’t put Humpty together again. This is how we sing along. But the original rhyme read a tad different. Samuel Arnold first published this in 1797 in the “Juvenile Amusements” with the last line reading Fourscore men and fourscore more/ could not make Humpty where he was before.
While the poem came under a slew of modifications over....
