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The James T. Callow Folklore Archive
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Tongue Twister:
How many sheets can a sheet slitter slit if he slits six sheets every time he sits?
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Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language:
Canner's Tongue Twister:
A canner exceedingly canny / Once remarked to his granny; / A canner can can whatever he can / but a canner can't can a can can he?
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James Callow comment:
Written next to entry: Sense?
Original BN [C890.570] crossed out / replaced with current classification
Where learned: Myself
Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Equidae - Horse Family
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The only informatino given on the card is the BN and the three words.
Where learned: UNKNOWN
Keyword(s): ANIMAL ; Biology ; Classification ; DEFINITION ; Equine ; FAMILY ; HORSE ; Language
| Subject headings: | BELIEF -- Mammal SPEECH -- Vocabulary SPEECH -- Folk Name for Animal |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Sister Susie sews shirts for seven soldiers.
Submitter comment:
She learned it from her girlfriends at school
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Similar one already typed as Prose
Keyword(s): HUMOR ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
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Tongue-Twister:
The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain.
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [S570] crossed out. Replaced with current classifications.
Misquoted from "My Fair Lady?" : The rain in Spain STAYS mainly IN the plains?
Where learned: UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT
Keyword(s): Language ; Rain ; TONGUE TWISTER ; WEATHER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Tongue Twister:
The big black bug
Bit the big black bear
In his big black back.
Data entry tech comment:
Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Something similar (but shorter) already typed as Prose.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): Bear ; Black ; Bug ; COLOR ; Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
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Baby Bunting:
By bye baby bunting, daddy's gone a hunting, for to catch a rabbit skin to wrap the baby bunting in.
Submitter comment:
My mother repeated this to my brothers and sisters and myself when we were very young. It was told to her when she was a child. It is a small verse used to explain the absence of father when the child asks where he is.
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James Callow comment:
Verse?
Where learned: HOME ; MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
Keyword(s): BABY ; infant ; Language ; Parent ; Prose ; RHYME
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
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A big black bug bled blue blood.
Submitter comment:
My Neighborhood
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James Callow comment:
Tongue Twister? This much (A big black bug) already typed as Prose.
Where learned: HOME ;
Keyword(s): BLOOD ; Blue ; Bug ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
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Tongue Twister:
Betty Botter bought some butter
She put it in her butter, but it made her butter bitter.
So she bought some better butter but it made her batter worse.
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Each time the word Butter appears, it is circled, with a questionmark.
Where learned: HOME
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Entry filtered.
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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.
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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Baking ; Batter ; Butter ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
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
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Speech Speech |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Of all the saw I ever saw saw, I never saw a saw saw like that saw saws.
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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 ;
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.
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Original BN [C870].
Return to make verse?
Keyword(s): Language ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Rush the washing Russell,
Rush the washing Russell.
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
A question mark is written on the card.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | -- .C700, S570 |
Language
Tongue Twister:
Sheep shouldn't sleep in a shack
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
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Motifs added by TRD
James Callow comment:
Malle Verse?
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; 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.
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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
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?
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Motifs added by TRD
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT ; DETROIT ;
Keyword(s): GAME ; Language ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER
| Subject headings: | SPEECH -- Formula |
Language
Tongue Twister:
A canner can can all the things that he can, but a canner can't can a can can he?
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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 ;
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 |