-
rural England.
Their interest in children's lore has been
credited to the
Opies recalling whilst out on a
countryside walk, the ‘Ladybird, ladybird, fly...
-
French fairy tales. The
Opies conclude that
analogues from
around the
world "offer no
surety of Jack's antiquity." The
Opies note that
tales of giants...
- as
reported by the
Opies.
Other terms reported included pips,
force field and quits. The
authors concluded that
either the
Opies had
grossly oversimplified...
-
Chionoecetes opilio, a
species of snow crab, also
known as
opilio crab or
opies, is a
predominantly epifaunal crustacean native to
shelf depths in the northwest...
- the
Native Americans,
dubbed Opies (short for "original people") for the
missing lumberjacks and
rescue team. The
Opies instead blame Katahdin, a vengeful...
-
moving backwards and
forwards first appears in
print from
about 1700. The
Opies note that "daw"
means "a lazy person", but in
Scots it is "an
untidy woman...
- **** by his toe; If he
squeals let him go, Eena, meena, mina, mo. The
Opies point out, in The
Oxford Dictionary of
Nursery Rhymes (1951), that the word...
-
stand and
imitate sneezing". In
their Dictionary of
Nursery Rhymes the
Opies record similar variations over time. A
German rhyme first printed in 1796...
-
Thomas Muffet (d.1604), an
English physician and entomologist, but the
Opies are
sceptical given the two-hundred year gap
between his
death and the rhyme's...
-
rhyme is
generally sung to one of two tunes. The only one
mentioned by the
Opies in The
Oxford Book of
Nursery Rhymes (1951) is a
variant of
Henry Purcell's...
