Nursery Rhyme?!


Question: Where in the nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg?


Answers: Where in the nursery rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty was an egg?

From wikipedia:

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Nursery rhyme portrayed as an anthropomorphic egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:

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 back together again.

The fact that Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme.

In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish & Norwegian; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.

it doesn't say he was. i think it was just assumed because he had to be put back together.

Do you think he was glass?

It doesn't say it but when it was first created there was a picture of an egg so everyone associates the two.

The fact that Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreparably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Lille Trille in Swedish & Norwegian; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dump...

i guess your right it doesnt really say it EGGsactly (<--haha sorry i couldnt resist)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dump...

It doesnt mention it, but this is what i found:

According to Martin Gardner, in The Annotated Mother Goose, the Humpty Dumpty rhyme is a riddle. Riddling rhymes were a popular source of entertainment for many centuries. The answer to the Humpty Dumpty riddle is, of course, "an egg."

It shows a drawing of him being an egg



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