nyaa nyaa/ naa naa (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

On Feb 14, 2012, at 11:19 AM, Herb Stahlke wrote:

> Does the distribution of "Olly Olly Oxen--Free" vs. "Allee allee outs
> in free," the formula we used in SE Michigan sixty years ago,

Hey, that actually makes sense, the outs being allowed safe passage to come in.  I always wondered about the oxen.  As mentioned, our version was just "All-y all-y in free", which also made sense to us.  (The "in" was stressed for us, but presumably not for the "oxen" and "outs in" folks, so we employed a nice iambic trimeter.)

LH

> correspond in any way to the distribution of the low back merger?
>
> Herb
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> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I remember "Olly Olly Oxen--Free Free Free " as the all clear call to
>> the uncaptured in Hide and Seek.
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>> Eric
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston at wmich.edu>wrote:
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>>> Olly-olly oxen free was fine for Hinsdale, IL in 1956.  My wife, from
>>> Cleveland, knows olly-olly-umfree (also 1950's)
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