Eenie meenie miney mo kids
These examples are given in no particular order. ".ĮXAMPLES OF "EENIE MEENIE MINEY MO" COUNTING RHYMES FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM The 'olla' and 'toe' areįound as nonsense words in some 19th century versions of the rhyme.
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"N-ger*" or "'n-ger*" were first recorded in England in theġ6th century with their current disparaging meaning. "holler" was first recorded in written form in England in the 14thĬentury, whereas according to the Oxford English Dictionary the words Originated in North America, although the apparently American word Isles pre-dating this post-slavery version, would seem to suggest that it This,Ĭombined with evidence of various other versions of the rhyme in the British Nursery Rhymes (1951) that the word "n-ger" was common in Americanįolklore, but unknown in any English traditional rhyme or proverb. Iona and Peter Opie pointed out in The Oxford Dictionary of United Kingdom where it seems to have replaced all earlier versions until the This may have helped popularise this version in the It was also used by Rudyard Kipling in his "AĬounting-Out Song", from Land and Sea Tales for Scouts and Guides , So there's the door and when I count four, This version was similar to that reported by Henry Carrington Bolton as the most common version among American schoolchildren in 1888.īut when you get money, your little bride Iona and Peter Opie quote the following version:
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Some versions of this rhyme use the racial slur "n-ger*" instead of "tiger". Since many similar counting rhymes existed earlier, it is difficult to know its exact origin. The rhyme has existed in various forms since well before 1820 and is common in many languages with similar-sounding nonsense syllables. It is one of a large group of similar rhymes in which the child who is pointed to by the chanter on the last syllable is either "chosen" or "counted out". "Eeny, meeny, miny, moe"-which can be spelled a number of ways-is a children's counting rhyme, used to select a person in games such as tag, or for selecting various other things. INFORMATION ABOUT "EENIE MEENIE MINEY MO" RHYMES Those euphemisms are noted by an asterisk: *. NOTE: The word that is commonly given as "the n word" is given as "n-ger" or other incomplete spellings in this post. This 2021 post may contain a few of the examples that are included in one of those 2015 posts.ĭISCLAIMER: This post isn't meant to be a comprehensive listing of online examples of these rhymes.
#EENIE MEENIE MINEY MO KIDS SERIES#
Thanks to all who are quoted in this post.Ĭlick for the pancocojams post entitled " Versions Of "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" Counting Out Rhymes In The United States".Īlso, c lick for for Part I and for Part II of a 2015 pancocojams series about "Versions Of "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" Counting Out Rhymes In The United States." I am not compiling these examples for recreational purposes as I consider "the n word" to be very offensive regardless of the context. The content is provided for folkloric and socio-cultural information. For folkloric purposes, I'm also interested in documenting examples of "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" rhymes from the United Kingdom which include "the 'n' word" and which also include recollections about the chanter's reaction to and/or other people's reactiions to that word in those examples.
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I'm particularly interested in documented some examples of "Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo" rhymes from the United States that include demographic information (particularly when and where these rhymes were/are chanted). This post doesn't include speculation about the origin/s of "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" rhymes. This pancocojams post presents some general information about "Eenie Meenie Miney Mo" counting out/choosing it rhymes and presents a compilation of some versions of these rhymes from the United Kingdom.
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This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on the "eenie meenie miney mo" counting out/choosing it rhymes and on eenie meenie epsileenie" jump rope/hand clap rhymes (or similar titles).