Dear Readers,
Have you ever wondered how messages and information was spread around before our print & telecommunication age when most people could neither read nor write. No, probably not. By Word of Mouth of course. And so it was easier to remember little rhymes were used - and just in case it was a little dangerous to utter a rhyme with too much literal sense they were made to sound a bit like nonsense - but everyone knew what they meant. Overtime, with the passing of several generations, their meaning became more obscure or lost in memory. When printing and reading eventually was commonplace the lyrical rhyming nonsense sounded like fun & hence introduced into the Nursery for Lullabies & baby talk.
And so to our first #1 medieval 'Tweet'
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner
Eating his Christmas pie,
He put in his thumb and puled out a Plum
And said "What a Good Boy am I!"
History and Origin.
