m_fA to The Far Side@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 16 hours ago23 February 2025imagemessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1212arrow-down10
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minus-squarem_fOPAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 hours agoThat’s a great question. Seems like nobody knows for sure. Maybe Lewis Carroll popularized it (though he didn’t invent it), maybe it was a riddle-turned-nursery-rhyme, maybe it referred to specific historical events. https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/how-do-we-know-humpty-dumpty-was-an-egg
That’s a great question. Seems like nobody knows for sure. Maybe Lewis Carroll popularized it (though he didn’t invent it), maybe it was a riddle-turned-nursery-rhyme, maybe it referred to specific historical events.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1489/how-do-we-know-humpty-dumpty-was-an-egg