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Humpty Dumpty was a children's riddle before it was a nursery rhyme...the answer to the riddle is that he was an egg.

2006-07-26 10:26:00 · answer #1 · answered by mynx326 4 · 0 1

Great question, one filled with many twists and turns, since it doesn't mention that he was an egg why not be a crystal vase, a glass or a plate, can any of these if broken be put back together again.
But wait, what if the person who wrote the nursery rhyme, actually had an artist with him at the time it was written and told the artist to make an egg.
Only one person knows for sure, and they are no longer here with us today.
So we take it on belief that the people who have interpreted this nursery rhyme over the years have been right.
I mean how do we know if he ever did fall of the wall, he may have fallen much later, just walking, but why would an egg even sit on a wall, they would have to be placed, and why would people even try to put it back together.
So many questions.

2006-07-26 05:28:59 · answer #2 · answered by Perhaps I love you more 4 · 0 0

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 as Humpty Dumpty is in English.

2006-07-26 05:39:19 · answer #3 · answered by tfer1974 2 · 0 0

in accordance to Martin Gardner, interior the Annotated mom Goose, the Humpty Dumpty rhyme is a riddle. Riddling rhymes have been a properly-liked source of entertainment for many centuries. the respond to the Humpty Dumpty riddle is, of direction, "an egg." do not question me how they got here to that end!

2016-12-10 14:55:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

The orginaly Humpty Dumpty wasn't actually an egg - it was a canon that sat on a wall in a city in Britain - but I can't remember which one.

2006-07-26 05:23:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

WHY WAS HUMPTY DUMPTY SAT ON A WALL?

2006-07-26 05:36:24 · answer #6 · answered by casper 6 · 0 0

Well heck, he looks like an eggs.

2006-07-26 05:28:40 · answer #7 · answered by Shay~Shay 3 · 0 0

we know because of the illustrations by Sir John Tenniel( who also did the Alice in Wonderland illustrations).

2006-07-26 05:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by Quasimodo 7 · 0 0

simply because he is an egg in the picture.

2006-07-26 05:23:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

they mention shell...n the fact tt they always draw a picture of a damn egg...

2006-07-26 06:22:07 · answer #10 · answered by risky_1986 6 · 0 0

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