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Most people learned this popular nursery rhyme as children: 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.

CHENNAI, India—Like many Indians, B.M. Krishnan grew up with both local and Western nursery rhymes. Even as a child, he figured the English ones just didn’t make much sense. The tale of the downfall ...

As children we, the Merdeka Generation, all learned the Humpty Dumpty Poem. It was an egg-shaped figure that sat on the wall and one day had a great fall and the refrain is: “all the King’s Horses and ...

Nursery rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty and Old Mother Hubbard, may be passed off as fun, but Susan Ackroyd has found they often have hidden meanings.

"Uff uff me, or my hearts will break," cried daughter (D) when presented, at age 3, with her new baby brother (S). Already she was integrating nursery rhyme words with her own language. S used the ...