2006-12-20 03:23:16 · 5 answers · asked by Your Angel 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
No where. It was originally a riddle!
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 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.
2006-12-20 03:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its not but when he falls from the wall and breaks, i guess you have to assume
2006-12-20 11:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't...it's a visual aid!!! A "you understood"
2006-12-20 11:25:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
illustration
2006-12-20 11:25:27 · answer #4 · answered by Joni J 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it doesn't!!
2006-12-20 11:33:51 · answer #5 · answered by Two Peas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋