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  2. Template:Patronymic names - Wikipedia

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    The person adapts the given name of their respective parent, and sometimes also their respective grandparent afterwards. It is possible not all names in the article follow this convention. In any case, it is recommended that a comment be placed intermediately after this template, listing all names with this attribute. For example:

  3. One, Two, Buckle My Shoe - Wikipedia

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    It was followed in 1910 by The Buckle My Shoe Picture Book, containing other rhymes too. This had coloured full-page illustrations: composites for lines 1-2 and 3–4, and then one for each individual line. [10] In America the rhyme was used to help young people learn to count and was also individually published.

  4. Template:Patronymic names/doc - Wikipedia

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    The person adapts the given name of their respective parent, and sometimes also their respective grandparent afterwards. It is possible not all names in the article follow this convention. In any case, it is recommended that a comment be placed intermediately after this template, listing all names with this attribute. For example:

  5. Rock-a-bye Baby - Wikipedia

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    "Hush-a-bye baby" in The Baby's Opera, A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, ca. 1877 The rhyme is generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one mentioned by the Opies in The Oxford Book of Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a variant of Henry Purcell 's 1686 quickstep Lillibullero , [ 2 ] but others were once popular in North ...

  6. There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe - Wikipedia

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    The term "a-loffeing", they believe, was Shakespearean, suggesting that the rhyme is considerably older than the first printed versions. They then speculated that if this were true, it might have a folklore meaning and pointed to the connection between shoes and fertility, perhaps exemplified by casting a shoe after a bride as she leaves for her honeymoon, [3] or tying shoes to the departing ...

  7. Template:Family name explanation - Wikipedia

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    Template:Family name explanation is placed at the top of a biographical article to explain to readers which part of a name is the family name. It is used by the wrappers {{Family name footnote}} and {{Family name hatnote}}. More rarely, it may be invoked directly, e.g. for use within a larger footnote about a person's name.

  8. Two Little Dickie Birds - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme was first recorded when published in Mother Goose's Melody in London around 1765. In this version the names of the birds were Jack and Gill: There were two blackbirds Sat upon a hill, The one was nam'd Jack, The other nam'd Gill; Fly away Jack, Fly away Gill, Come again Jack, Come again Gill. [1]

  9. Little Arabella Miller - Wikipedia

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    The rhyme has just one verse but there are several variants which focus on the description of the caterpillar (furry, fuzzy, woolly), and on the family members mentioned in the rhyme (mother, brother, grandmother, baby brother). A version sung in England: