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Tongue Twister:

Betty Botter bought some butter. But, she said, the butters bitter: If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter. But a bit of better butter will make my batter better. So she bought a bit of butter and put it in her batter and it made her batter worse.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Baking ; Batter ; Butter ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Betty Batter bought a bit of bitter batter.

Submitter comment:

She learned it from girlfriends at school.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 9175 YORKSHIRE ; Winay, Maureen

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Of all the saw I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw like that saw saws.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C700] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Something similar in Prose already typed.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Wisok, David

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech

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Tongue Twister:

Rush the washing, Russell.

Rush the washing, Russell.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [C870].

Return to make verse?

Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

Rush the washing Russell,

Rush the washing Russell.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

A question mark is written on the card.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; ; Bernard, Michael

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: -- .C700, S570

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Tongue Twister:

Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack

Sheep should sleep in a shed.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Malle Verse?

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Jekabson, Martha ; 16765 Beech Daly ; REDFORD

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

I stood on the steps of Burgesses fish sauce shop,

Mimicking him hiccuping and welcoming him in.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Burgess's?

Make Verse?

The word him is underlined, with an arrow pointing at it with the word Ant??

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Wisok, David

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Verse without Music
SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

That that is, is that that is not, is not. Is not that it?

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ; ; Lamb, Rich

Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Tongue Twister:

A canner can can all the things that he can, but a canner can't can a can can he?

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Sense??

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAMES ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER

Subject headings: SPEECH -- Formula

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Weather Verse:

Rain Rain, go away. Come again another day.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 18471 FAIRFIELD ; ; Bujold, Catherine

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

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RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY, COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD / Updated on 1-13-2011

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

Date learned: 03-00-1968

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RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY/ COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY/ LITTLE JOHNNIE WANTS
TO PLAY.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD / Updated on 01-13-2011

Where learned: EAST DETROIT

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

Date learned: 03-00-1971

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Folk Song by Children:

RAIN RAIN GO AWAY, COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY.

Submitter comment:

A SONG ALL LITTLE CHILDREN USED TO SING WHEN IT STARTED TO RAIN.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD / Updated on 01-13-2011

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; 10428 CURTIS ; 48221

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

Date learned: 10-02-1977

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RAIN, RAIN GO AWAY
COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD / Updated on 01-13-2011

Where learned: TENNESSEE ; NASHVILLE

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

Date learned: 09-13-1973

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Language: Weather

Rain, rain, go away. Come back another day.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

KW: WP

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: Morabito, Sal

Keyword(s): CHILD ; CHILDREN ; Language ; Play ; Rain ; RHYME ; SONG ; VERSE ; WEATHER

Subject headings: Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Lyrical Verse Lyrical Verse
Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Proverb Proverb
BELIEF -- Cloud Fog Mist Rain Hail Ice Snow Frost Dew

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Maxim

All that Glitters is not gold.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [O700, V3] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: Gibson, Mrs J W

Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; COLOR ; Gold ; Language ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Expression

Busy as a one-armed coathanger.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. replaced with current classification.

Dup. of WPP

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ; Black, Karen

Keyword(s): Expression ; Language ; Maxim ; METAPHOR ; PROVERB

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Comparison

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Proverb

Caveat Emptor - Let the buyer beware.

Submitter comment:

...From HIgh School Economics and Latin class.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Located in a pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects

KW:FFN

Keyword(s): Beware ; Buyer ; ECONOMICS ; Language ; LATIN ; PRUDENCE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Apothegm Maxim

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Proverb

Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse.

[A rolling stone gathers no moss]

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Trans. by Mrs. K.J. Uniechowski

Located in pile marked Duplicates and Other Rejects

Where learned: Floyd, Phylis

Keyword(s): Busy ; FRENCH ; Language ; LAZY ; METAPHOR ; Moss ; Rolling ; Sedentary ; STONE

James Callow Keyword(s): ANIMATED NATURE

Subject headings: PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor

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Play on Words

A specimen is an Italian astronaut.

Submitter comment:

I heard this while I was at Sacred Heart Seminary

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs and BN added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Submission card located in pile marked These don't sound traditional. Do not file yet.

Keyword(s): ETHNIC ; Italian ; Language ; PUN ; Spaceman ; Specimen ; TRANSLATION

Subject headings: PROSE NARRATIVE -- Jest Anecdote

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