Humpty Dumpty

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a nursery rhyme typically portrayed as an egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13026. The most common text is: The rhyme does not explicitly state that the subject is an egg because it was originally posed as a riddle, first published in 1810 as such: It probably exploited, for misdirection, the fact that "humpty dumpty" was also eighteenth-century... more
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