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Humpty Dumpty


 

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Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:

Related Topics:
Mother Goose - Anthropomorphized - Egg - English

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:Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

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:Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

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:All the king's horses and all the king's men

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:Couldn't put Humpty together again.

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He also appears in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and discusses semantics with Alice. Among other things, he explains the difficult words from Jabberwocky.

Related Topics:
Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass - Semantics - Alice - Jabberwocky

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