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Where Does The Phrase "in A Dark Dark ..." Come From Originally.
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I know Janet and Alan Ahlberg used it for their Funnybones book, but I always thought it was older than that. When I was a kid we played a game which started with "in a dark dark town, was a dark dark street, in the dark dark street, was a dark dark house, . . . and so on"
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the Opies wrote the definitive books on schoolyard language - seventies I think. I think they also did The Singing Game....
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the interesting ( to me ) bits like Little Jack Horner is about the 1530s dissolution of the monasteries, or Mary Mary quite contrary is about Mary I Tudor, gets short shrift from them as old wives tales which they dont bother with
[ there is still enough material for a book a two tho ]
the Opies wrote the definitive books on schoolyard language - seventies I think. I think they also did The Singing Game....
BUT
the interesting ( to me ) bits like Little Jack Horner is about the 1530s dissolution of the monasteries, or Mary Mary quite contrary is about Mary I Tudor, gets short shrift from them as old wives tales which they dont bother with
[ there is still enough material for a book a two tho ]
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