(“Hobson-Jobson” is an Anglo-Indian corruption of the Muslim festival cry “Yā Ḥasan! Yā Ḥosain!” “punch,” originally meaning a drink with five ingredients, is a Hobson-Jobson of panj, meaning “five.”īut at their core, counting-out rhymes tend to be very conservative. Other Eeny Meeny varietals arose through the process of Hobson-Jobson, that is, when words from another language are homophonically translated to fit the phonology of the native speaker’s tongue.
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Some are mondegreens, a term coined by the author Sylvia Wright when she heard “And laid him on the green” as “And Lady Mondegreen.” (“ ’Scuse me while I kiss this guy” is a mondegreen for Jimi Hendrix’s lyric “ ’Scuse me while I kiss the sky”, and Taylor Swift’s long list of ex-lovers are lonely Starbucks lovers.) Many variations of Eeny Meeny have cropped up through mishearing, the way a game of Telephone or Chinese Whispers retains the sound of the original but mangles the sense. The rhyme morphs constantly, but usually ad hoc, and each kickball court has its own particular flavor based more on random chance one child’s popular improvisation might catch on and change the rhyme in a certain region for decades. If it doesn’t seem to make sense, even in the gibberish Eeny Meeny world, that you’d grab a carnivorous cat’s toe and expect the tiger to do the hollering, remember that in both England and America, children until recently said “Catch a nigger by the toe.” The nigger-to-tiger shift is one of the rare instances where changes in the rhyme happen in such an explicit and pointed fashion. In the canonical Eeny Meeny, “tiger” is standard in the second line, but this is a relatively recent revision.
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And I’d be remiss in omitting “One potato, two potato, three potato, four / Five potato, six potato, seven potato, more,” which flirts with replacing eeny meeny as the counting-out gold standard in the United States. “Ippetty, sipetty, ippetty sap, ipetty, sipetty, kinella kinack” (Scotland). “Eenty, teenty, ithery, bithery” (England). “Hinty, minty, cuty, corn, wire, briar, limber lock” (United States). Not only are there hoards of Eeny Meenies, there are just as many counting-out schemes that share the same DNA. In the fifties and sixties, the formidable husband-and-wife folklorists Iona and Peter Opie recorded hundreds of varieties in England and America, including, to name just a few: What we do know is that once Eeny Meeny appeared on the scene, it was everywhere. But where did eeny meeny come from? Kipling tells us that “Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, and Mo / Were the First Big Four of the Long Ago,” but that’s not such a good lead. It turns up in strange places: in Pulp Fiction, in the Great Vermont Corn Maze, in Justin Bieber songs.
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No one knows what eeny or meeny might mean everybody knows what “eeny meeny” means. “Eeny meeny miny mo” is one of those rhymes that’s ingrained in our cultural limbic system-once we hear the first two syllables, the rest unspools whether we want it to or not.
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Nghe bài hát Eenie Meenie chất lượng cao 320 kbps lossless miễn phí.īài hát: Eenie Meenie - Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston Eenie meenie miney mo Catch a bad chick by her toe If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go She's indecisive She can't decide She keeps on lookin' From left to right Girl, come a bit closer Look in my eyes Searchin' is so wrong I'm Mr.A Works Progress Administration poster for the Cedar Central Apartments in Cleveland, Ohio, ca.
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Tìm loi bai hat eenie meenie - sean kingston, justin bieber - Sean Kingston, Justin Bieber ngay trên Nhaccuatui. Not tryin' to rewind, wind, wind, wind, windīài hát eenie meenie - sean kingston, justin bieber do ca sĩ Sean Kingston, Justin Bieber thuộc thể loại. 'Cause shawty is a eenie meenie miney mo lovaĬan't make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind I wish our hearts could come together as one I'm not tryin' to rewind, wind, wind, wind, wind Please don't waste my time, time, time, time, time You can't make up your mind, mind, mind, mind, mind If she holla (if, if, if she holla) let her go Bài hát: Eenie Meenie - Justin Bieber, Sean Kingston