higgledy piggledies

[Joel S. Berson]

How accurate is Wikipedia on higgledy-piggledies, particularly the
"purportedly<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy#cite_note-Hecht_and_Hollander-0>[1]
invented by <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Hecht>Anthony Hecht
and Paul Pascal in 1961"?
1^
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy#cite_ref-Hecht_and_Hollander_0-0>a
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy#cite_ref-Hecht_and_Hollander_0-1>b
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgledy_piggledy#cite_ref-Hecht_and_Hollander_0-2>c
Anthony Hecht and John Hollander, Jiggery-Pokery, A Compendium of
Double Dactyls (New York: Atheneum, 1967)

Joel

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