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Why is Humpty Dumpty Always Depicted as an Egg? (2018x144)
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As you seem to have noticed, in the “Humpty Dumpty” nursery rhyme, nowhere does it say that Humpty is an egg, yet he is often presented as such in pictures and stories. The version of the rhyme that most children learn today goes like this:
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Sources:
http://myths.e2bn.org/mythsandlegends/origins1-humpty-dumpty-and-the-fall-of-colchester.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty
http://bshistorian.wordpress.com/2008/10/11/putting-the-dump-in-humpty-dumpty/
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1494/why-is-humpty-dumpty-portrayed-as-an-egg-even-though-eggs-arent-mentioned-in-the-nursery-rhyme
http://suite101.com/article/the-possible-origin-of-humpty-dumpty-a66816
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/humpty_dumpty.htm
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