[Ads-l] Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea Market

[Paul A Johnston, Jr]

I'd love to hear that rhyme in Northumbrian.

Paul

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> From: "Charles C Doyle" <cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
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> of Flea
>               Market
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> Many of us oldsters, I expect, can remember the childhood rhyme, "The
> fly a=
> nd the flea fell into the flue; / Said the fly to the flea, 'What on
> earth =
> shall we do?' / Said the flee, 'Let us fly.' Said the fly, 'Let us
> flee." /=
>  So they flew through a flaw in the flue."
> 
> --Charlie
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> Cohen,=
>  Gerald Leonard <gcohen at MST.EDU>
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> Subject: Language and children; flee/flea. Was: Antedating of Flea
> Market
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> I've been collecting information on children's language, including
> 
> children's misperceptions of adult speech.  In this regard, I
> 
> noticed David Daniel's 2008 message below, in which a child
> 
> humorously mistook the verb "flee" to be the noun "flea."
> 
> Might I now ask David:  Does he have first-hand knowledge
> 
> of this humorous incident? (Did he hear it himself? Was it told
> 
> about a child of one of his friends or relatives?) Or was it
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> perhaps a fabricated bit of humor that can't reliably be judged
> 
> to have actually occurred?
> 
> Gerald Cohen
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> Original message to American Dialect Society on behalf
> of David A. Daniel (dad at POKERWIZ.COM<mailto:dad at POKERWIZ.COM>)
> Sent: Wed 7/9/2008 10:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Antedating of Flea Market
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> Sunday school teacher, reading Bible passage: "The man named Lot was
> warned
> to take his wife and flee out of the city but his wife looked back
> and was
> turned to salt."
> 
> Concerned four-year-old: "What happened to the flea?"
> DAD=
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