Humpty Dumpty sat on a tuffet, eating his curds and whey, along came Mary and her little lamb, and said if you don't know how to do it, I'll show you how to walk your dog. #weird #HumptyDumpty #walkingthedog

Humpty Dumpty: Inside The Nursery Rhyme’s Mysterious Origins

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https://allthatsinteresting.com/humpty-dumpty-meaning

@ThatMarkRoberts Not true. Carroll didn't add this. That the answer to the riddle was "an egg" was common for decades by that point.

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps's 1843 Nursery Rhymes of England gave the answer in the riddle's title: "[an egg]".

Friedrich Heinrich von der Hagen's Neues Jarbuch of 1839 has the riddle with the same title, and that was three decades before Alice. Dodgson was 7 years old at the time, and that wasn't even the first publication of the riddle.

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💡 Here is a random question of the day:

When you think of humpty dumpty in the nursery rhyme, what do you imagine?

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The Strange Historical Origins of the #HumptyDumpty Nursery Rhyme

Nearly all children who grew up during the twentieth century are familiar with the nursery rhyme of Humpty Dumpty. This modern version of the short rhyme runs as follows: "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."

https://www.historydefined.net/humpty-dumpty-history/