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"Rumpelstiltskin" is usually explained as literally meaning "little rattle stilt". The ending -chen in the German form Rumpelstiltschen is a diminutive cognate to English -kin. Rumpelstilzchen is regarded as containing Stilzchen, diminutive of Stelze "stilt".
This is a set of lists of English personal and place names having spellings that are counterintuitive to their pronunciation because the spelling does not accord with conventional pronunciation associations. Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages.
Rumpelstiltskin, a German fantasy film, directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf; Rumpelstiltskin, a twenty-four-minute animated feature; Rumpelstiltskin, an American-Israeli film; Rumpelstiltskin, an American horror film, loosely based on the Grimm fairy tale
Articles relating to Rumpelstiltskin (1812), a German fairy tale. It was collected by the Brothers Grimm in the 1812 edition of Children's and Household Tales. The story is about a little imp who spins straw into gold in exchange for a girl's firstborn child.
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A woman's husband went to the fair and never returned; she was left alone with her baby son and owning only a big sow. The sow was about to farrow, and she hoped for a good litter, but one day she went to the pen to find the sow dying.
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Ghoti is often cited to support English spelling reform, and is often attributed to George Bernard Shaw, [8] a supporter of this cause. However, the word does not appear in Shaw's writings, [ 4 ] and a biography of Shaw attributes it instead to an anonymous spelling reformer. [ 9 ]