thinking about it,all my life i was made to belive he was an egg! did you think that too? (i really gotta get out more...)
2006-07-09 08:17:01 · 17 answers · asked by tetley 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Yeah. He's always been depicted as an egg... My bandmates were actually discussing this very topic last practice.
Supposedly, "Humpty Dumpty" was the name given to a canon used by ...uh... some country fighting a war in the olden days (I wasn't really paying full attention). ...And during some battle the great & mighty canon was destroyed by the enemy... and couldn't be put back together again.
It was made into a nursery rhyme, and the subject of the story was changed so as not to traumatize children with a story of war.
2006-07-09 08:23:55 · answer #1 · answered by Qrissy 3 · 9⤊ 3⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humpty_Dumpty
That Humpty Dumpty is an egg is not actually stated in the rhyme. In its first printed form, in 1810, it is a riddle, and exploits for misdirection the fact that "humpty dumpty" was 18th-Century reduplicative slang for a short, clumsy person. Whereas a clumsy person falling off a wall would not be irreperably damaged, an egg would be. The rhyme is no longer posed as a riddle, since the answer is now so well known. Similar riddles have been recorded by folklorists in other languages, such as Boule Boule in French, or Thille Lille in Swedish; though none is as widely known Humpty Dumpty is in English.
2006-07-09 15:20:40 · answer #2 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not stated -- ithe rhyme is a riddle, and the answer is that Humpty Dumpty is an egg.
2006-07-09 15:21:17 · answer #3 · answered by violet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Humpty Dumpty was an egg because he was English, thats why people from anywhere else cant understand it. it's in our breeding.....................It's like 'When the cow jumped over the moon' ....It was a refextion in a pond.
2006-07-09 15:55:21 · answer #4 · answered by voddybabe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good point! In fact did you know that Humpty was a cannon in one of the old wars?
(think I need to join you in going out lol)
2006-07-09 15:21:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesnt, but the picture of him, which is usually on the page of the rhyme, depicts him as an egg.
2006-07-09 15:51:06 · answer #6 · answered by bumblebee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Childhood memories state the pictures show him as an egg..and as I like tradition, I'm sticking with my happy memories!
2006-07-09 15:48:24 · answer #7 · answered by amelia_madeline 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it dosnt say he is an egg but it immplied it he is an egg it show it in the book
2006-07-09 15:24:16 · answer #8 · answered by butterflykisses01247 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah it never says he's an egg but in the story books thats how they draw him
2006-07-09 15:20:40 · answer #9 · answered by kayla_ann_simmons 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no it does not say if humpty dumpy is an egg
2006-07-09 17:27:32 · answer #10 · answered by nicky 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋