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Humpty Dumpty

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Humpty Dumpty
arbitrarily gives his own meanings to words, and tolerates no objections. [Br. Lit.: Lewis Carroll Through the Looking-Glass]
See : Arrogance
Humpty Dumpty
“egg” in Mother Goose who, among other things, alludes to fatness. [Children’s Lit.: Mother Goose]
See : Fatness
Humpty Dumpty
all the King’s men failed to reassemble him. [Nuns. Rhyme: Mother Goose, 40]
See : Irreversibility
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Byline: Coleen Nolan The kids' channel CBeebies has changed the last line of Humpty Dumpty from "couldn't put Humpty together again" to "made Humpty happy again".
Getting the Hump by The Mirror (London, England)
Byline: ANI London, Oct 19 (ANI): The BBC has come under fire after rewriting nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty and giving it a happy ending.
BBC under fire for rewriting nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty by Asian News International
Byline: K M C VARIATIONS ON A CHILDHOOD THEME: PART ONE HUMPTY DUMPTY wore a straw hat, Which always made his face look fat.
Daily Poem by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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