Comments on: Make Decisions the Way Mother Goose Taught You http://www.liravaughan.com/2009/05/19/make-decisions-the-way-mother-goose-taught-you/ Creative Writing, Business Sense Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lira http://www.liravaughan.com/2009/05/19/make-decisions-the-way-mother-goose-taught-you/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Lira Fri, 29 May 2009 05:58:42 +0000 http://www.liravaughan.com/?p=412#comment-55 @mom - So I did some digging in the history of this particular rhyme and discovered that we are probably both right. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Around_the_Rosie rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>, this rhyme was first published in Kate Greenaway's "Mother Goose" in 1881, but it is noted to have originated around the 1790's. Scholars have as yet been unable to prove the plague interpretation(and hence an origin in the Great Plague of 1655). We may never know, but at least the rhyme is still amusing children and teaching decision making to the rest of us. LOL :) @mom – So I did some digging in the history of this particular rhyme and discovered that we are probably both right. According to Wikipedia, this rhyme was first published in Kate Greenaway’s “Mother Goose” in 1881, but it is noted to have originated around the 1790′s. Scholars have as yet been unable to prove the plague interpretation(and hence an origin in the Great Plague of 1655).

We may never know, but at least the rhyme is still amusing children and teaching decision making to the rest of us. LOL :)

]]> By: mom http://www.liravaughan.com/2009/05/19/make-decisions-the-way-mother-goose-taught-you/comment-page-1/#comment-53 mom Fri, 29 May 2009 00:13:51 +0000 http://www.liravaughan.com/?p=412#comment-53 Ring around the rosie quote.....I guess I'm not sure who Mother Goose is...or when Mother Goose wrote....but "ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down" is a little ditty that young children used to "sing" when Europe was hit with the plague. The suggested meaning of it was the plague left hugh sores that occurred in red rings and people who had to walk through the streets used to carry posies lifted to their noses so they would not have to breath in the overwhelming smell of death that was everywhere. "Ashes, ashes" referred to the immense fires that were set to destroy the dead bodies and certainly, "we all fall down" related to the fact that an overwhelming amount of people died of this dreaded epidemic. Ring around the rosie quote…..I guess I’m not sure who Mother Goose is…or when Mother Goose wrote….but “ring around the rosie, pocket full of posies, ashes ashes we all fall down” is a little ditty that young children used to “sing” when Europe was hit with the plague. The suggested meaning of it was the plague left hugh sores that occurred in red rings and people who had to walk through the streets used to carry posies lifted to their noses so they would not have to breath in the overwhelming smell of death that was everywhere. “Ashes, ashes” referred to the immense fires that were set to destroy the dead bodies and certainly, “we all fall down” related to the fact that an overwhelming amount of people died of this dreaded epidemic.

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