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where does ring a ring o' roses come from
Ring a Ring o' Roses or Ring a Ring o' Rosie is an English nursery rhyme or folksong and playground singing game.
when did ring a ring o' roses first appear in print
Ring a ring o roses first appeared in print in 1881, but it is reported that a version was already being sung to the current tune in the 1790s
when was an early version of ring a ring o' roses printed in a mother goose collection
Ring a Ring o Roses rhyme was printed in Kate Greenaway's 1881 edition of Mother Goose
when was ring a ring o' roses first printed in german
A German rhyme first printed in 1796 closely resembles Ring a ring o'roses in its first stanza and accompanies the same actions

Question: why do scholars regard the plague explanation as baseless
Self-contained rewrite: why do scholars regard the black plague explanation of ring a ring o' roses as baseless