Which Chikun? Was: -- Re: handcrafted

[Robin Hamilton]

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From: "Ronald Butters" <ronbutters at AOL.COM>

        " ... or is this just more Chicken Little lexicography?"
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K, one of *my pet peeves.

It wasn't (and in a non-judgemental sense, shouldn't be) "Chicken Little
[sic]".

Much of the imaginative logic of the original narrative turned on the
assertiveness of the rhymes used to name the creatures -- Chicken Licken
[sic], Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, and finally of course Foxy
Loxy.

Thus whether or not Chicken Licken Was Right, Chicken Little was assuredly
wrong about the sky falling.  A Chicken of Very Little Brain, that one, or
perhaps whatever few brains he had were knocked out of his head by the
acorn, no Newton he.

Robin

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