Where did they get the idea that Humpty Dumpty is an egg, it doesnt mention it anywhere in the rhyme...?

Answer 1

Good question,but remember it's a nursery rhyme...You have to associate humpty with something that is breakable and non-repairable..Just happened to be an egg,,Stay sweet..

Answer 2

That is one of the most brilliant questions I have ever run across. As I think about it, it must be a political slur according to the times.
Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.
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 irreparably 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 Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English.
I searched and found in Wikipedia and found this as well as other things inclusive political.
Thanks.
Lioncourt.

Answer 3

As it reads in Wikipedia:

Humpty Dumpty is a character in a Mother Goose rhyme, portrayed as an anthropomorphized egg. Most English-speaking children are familiar with the rhyme:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.

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 irreparably 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 Lille Trille in Swedish; though none is as widely known as Humpty Dumpty is in English

Answer 4

Not sure who "they" are, but they got it from opening line of Chapter VI in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass":

"However, the egg only got larger and larger, and more and more human : when she had come within a few yards of it, she saw that it had eyes and a nose and mouth ; and, when she come close to it, she saw clearly that it was HUMPTY DUMPTY himself."

Answer 5

That Is so true. And if you really think about the whole rhyme it's nonsense. All the king s horses couldn't put humpty together again.

Well dah, wouldn't the horses just lick him up. My horses love egg.

Answer 6

Awesome question.
They never did state it but I'd say for the sake of children they chose for him to be an egg.
Why?
Who wants to see a broken guy laying on the ground... it's bloody and sad.. not to mention it would scare kids.
Egg is the way to go when you make something for children I suppose... though he could have been something else.
Nice one. ^_^

Answer 7

because he broke when he fell. what else breaks when they fall an egg so maybe that is why bc you can not put an egg back together again after it breaks. so that could be why. Imagination is the factor too.

Answer 8

Its just one of many assumptions made by mankind.
Do not break your pretty head over it:it is not worth it
For instance:what's with the name Father Christmas:he ain't my father:never.
My mothers dislikes facial hair,of did he drug her??
And all the other mothers?.
And:he has adaptable sperm:i guess!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

good point but then an egg breakes easily and you can't put it together

Answer 10

YO they never said he wuz an egg. DANG