Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: nursery rhymes

do you guys know any nursery rhyme about trees?
 I can only think of "Bob and Marry (or whoever) sitting on a tree, k i s s
i n g. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in baby
carriage".
I know it's not properly a nursery rhyme...
anyway, can you think of childrens' songs, rhymes or anything mentioning
trees?
:(
Tangthinging...

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Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top
When the wind blows the cradle will rock
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall
And down will come baby , cradle and all
I had a little nut-tree
And nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg
And a golden pear .
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me ,
All for the sake of
My little nut tree.
Mike

A wise old owl sat in an oak
The more he saw, the less he spoke
The less he spoke, the more he heard
Why can't we all be like that bird?
-- 
Mary

 "A little cock sparrow 
Un passero ipodotato?
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
(Janis Joplin)
16/09/2005 23.56.02

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I like 'ipodotato' - a nice addition to my vocabulary ; but how common a 
word is it in Italian ? I just checked in my Nuovo Ragazzini , which doesn't 
give it at all .
Mike 

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If you're prepared to settle for a bush , here's another :-
Here we go round the mulberry bush
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning
This is the way we wash our clothes
Wash our clothes, wash our clothes
This is the way we wash our clothes
So early Monday morning
This is the way we iron our clothes
Iron our clothes, iron our clothes
This is the way we iron our clothes
So early Tuesday morning
This is the way we mend our clothes
Mend our clothes, mend our clothes
This is the way we mend our clothes
So early Wednesday morning
This is the way we sweep the floor
Sweep the floor, sweep the floor
This is the way we sweep the floor
So early Thursday morning
This is the way we scrub the floor
Scrub the floor, scrub the floor
This is the way we scrub the floor
So early Friday morning
This is the way we bake our bread
Bake our bread, bake our bread
This is the way we bake our bread
So early Saturday morning
This is the way we go to church
Go to church, go to church
This is the way we go to church
So early Sunday morning
Here we go round the mulberry bush
The mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning
Mike

I finally settled for "rock-a-bye baby, in the tree-top"
Thanks everybody!
Tang

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Prefixes iper- and ipo- are quite common in Italian. Much the same happens
in English with such words as "hyper" and "over": one can create new words
quite easily, and the possibilities are so many that there's no point in
registering them in dictionaries.
Bye, FB
-- 
Sir Robert Chiltern:   And women represent the irrational.
Mrs. Cheveley: Well-dressed women do.
("An Ideal Husband", Oscar Wilde)

 registering them in dictionaries.
What could be the English for "ipodotato"? "Under-endowed"?
Bye, FB
-- 
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"Er, it was terrific."
"I'm so glad."
"No, I didn't mean it that way."
"I'm so sorry."
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