The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

Language: Tongue Twister

Sally sells seashells by the seashore.

Submitter comment:

She thinks she learned this one in school.

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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE

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Language: Tongue Twister

She sells sea shells by the seashore.

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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE

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Language: Tongue Twister

She seels sea shells down by the seashore. If she sells sea shells down by the seashore where are the sea shells she sells down by the seashore?

Submitter comment:

Learned from Childhood.

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Keyword(s): ALLITERATION ; Language ; REPETITION ; RHYME ; TONGUE TWISTER ; VERSE

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Proverb

Many a slip, twixt the cup and the lip.

Submitter comment:

This proverb means that anything can happen from the time you start something until you finish it.

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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Cup ; DRINKING ; Lip ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; SLIP ; VERSE

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Proverb

Birds of a feather flock together.

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Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; BIRDS ; Company ; FRIENDS ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; VERSE

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Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

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James Callow comment:

Original BN [V300] Crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Forethought ; Maxim ; Nine ; NUMBER ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Stitch ; TIME ; VERSE

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Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

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James Callow comment:

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

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Forethought ; Maxim ; Nine ; NUMBER ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Stitch ; TIME ; VERSE

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Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

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Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Forethought ; Maxim ; Nine ; NUMBER ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Stitch ; THRIFT ; TIME ; VERSE

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Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

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Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

Original BN [V600] crossed out. Replaced wtih current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Forethought ; Maxim ; Nine ; NUMBER ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Save ; Stitch ; TIME ; VERSE

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Proverb

A stitch in time saves nine.

Data entry tech comment:

Motifs added by TRD

James Callow comment:

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

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Maxim ; Nine ; NUMBER ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Save ; Stitch ; THRIFT ; TIME ; VERSE

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Proverb

haste makes waste.

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James Callow comment:

Original BN [V300] crossed out. Replaced with current classification.

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT

Keyword(s): Aphorism ; Apothegm ; Haste ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; VERSE ; Waste

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Maxim

Album Rhyme:

On this page in memory pressed,

May my name forever rest.

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James Callow comment:

I can remember writing this in grade school friends' autograph books.

Keyword(s): Album ; AUTOGRAPH ; Maxim ; PROVERB ; RHYME ; Saying ; Signature ; VERSE

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Language: Rhyme

Married Rhyme:

When you get married and live in a shack,

Send me your money in a paper sack.

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Keyword(s): Language ; MARRIAGE ; MONEY ; Paper ; RHYME ; Sack ; Shack ; VERSE

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Language: Rhyme

Married Rhyme:

When you get married and live in a shack,

Remember the girl who never wrote back.

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Keyword(s): Language ; MARRIAGE ; Married ; RHYME ; Shack ; VERSE

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Language: Rhyme

Love Rhyme:

Remember the old, remember the new.

Remember the guy, who wrote "I Love You."

Submitter comment:

This rhyme was given to me by a grade school "boyfriend"

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Keyword(s): Language ; LOVE ; New ; Old ; Remember ; RHYME ; VERSE

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Language: Rhyme

Roses Rhyme:

Roses are red, Violets are blue.

Sugar is sweet, And so are you.

Submitter comment:

This is a rhyme that is familiar to most everyone who has heard a "roses are red" rhyme...

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Keyword(s): Blue ; COLOR ; Language ; poem ; Red ; RHYME ; Roses ; Sugar ; Sweet ; VERSE

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Autograph Rhyme

From Grade School Book:

2 Nice

2 Be

____

4 Gotten

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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE

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Autograph Rhyme

From Grade School Book:

2 Nice

2 Be

____

4 Gotten

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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; poem ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE

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Autograph Rhyme

Gradeschool Autograph:

When you get married and live in a holler: Send me a kiss on a paper dollar.

Submitter comment:

Collected from my grade school autograph book.

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Keyword(s): AUTOGRAPH ; Dollar ; KISS ; Married ; Paper ; RHYME ; Signature ; VERSE

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