While most envision the character as an egg, thanks to contemporary depictions, the truth behind Humpty Dumpty is a bit murkier. The rhyme may refer to clumsy drunks, or it may have its roots in ...

The Egg, The Riddle. Originally, the nursery rhyme may have been more of a riddle to recite—perhaps in bars as people drank their brandy in ale.

The Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme is one of the countless nursery rhymes that got stuck to the minds of some as it was taught to us when we were younger. However, a woman on TikTok unmasked the ...

Many of us grew up singing the children's nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty, the story of a giant egg who fell off a wall and cracked. Just to remind you how it goes: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall ...

This nursery rhyme isn't about a giant egg, as suggested by most illustrations in children's books. Humpty Dumpty was actually a cannon used during the English Civil War.

Humpty Dumpty is the protagonist of the English nursery rhyme, ‘Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall’. Perhaps due to his fragility revealed in the fall, he has often been portrayed as an egg – including by ...

The rhyme had some variations, but according to one telling by Museum Wales went: Clap, clap, os gwelwch chi'n dda ga'i wŷ (Clap, clap, please may I have an egg) ...