At 06:20 PM 14.2.98 +0100, you wrote:
>How old is Tom?! 'Ashes' seem to be American, 'Atishoo', English. Oral
variants!
To refine further, Canadians (at least while I was growing up) learned
"Atishoo" while my small son now in the States says "Ashes"
While this rhyme might not have grown out of a plague context, I wonder if
it might still not be "about" the plague.
Regards,
Lucy Pick
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>At 10.51 14/02/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>The version I recall from childhood includes the line "Ashes, ashes, all
>>fall down." But that may be an alternatives version of "Atchoo."
>>
>>tom izbicki
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