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Girls and Boys Come Out To Play 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' England: 1708 Goosey Goosey Gander: England: 1784 Green Gravel: England c. 1835 Green Grow the Rushes, O: England: Happy Birthday To You 'Birthday Song', 'Happy Birthday' USA 1893 Hark, Hark! The Dogs Do Bark: England Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Bouts-Rimés. Bouts-Rimés ( French, literally 'rhymed-ends') is the name given to a kind of poetic game defined by Addison in the Spectator as "lists of words that rhyme to one another, drawn up by another hand, and given to a poet, who was to make a poem to the rhymes in the same order that they were placed upon the list".
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Girls and Boys Come Out to Play" or "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play" is a nursery rhyme that has existed since at least 1708. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 5452. Lyrics. The most common versions of the rhyme are very similar to that collected by James Orchard Halliwell in the mid-nineteenth century:
Rhyming dictionary. A rhyming dictionary is a specialized dictionary designed for use in writing poetry and lyrics. In a rhyming dictionary, words are categorized into equivalence classes that consist of words that rhyme with one another. They also typically support several different kinds of rhymes and possibly also alliteration as well.
The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile " in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source. "They all lived together in a little ...
concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish; pneumatic, rheumatic; Anapestic pairs. In an anapestic pair, each word is an anapest and has the first and second syllables unstressed and the third syllable stressed.
Jumble: a kind of word game in which the solution of a puzzle is its anagram. Chronogram: a phrase or sentence in which some letters can be interpreted as numerals and rearranged to stand for a particular date. Gramogram: a word or sentence in which the names of the letters or numerals are used to represent the word.