Ring around the roses

Posted by Kate on August 14, 2003

In Reply to: Ring around the roses posted by ESC on August 11, 2003

Really? The bubonic plaque origin is a hoax? What will I tell my kindergarteners?

: : I believe it is "atishoo, atishoo
: : we all fall down"
: : because as I understand it there was sneezing associated with the plague which was the last cycle before death, though what one would be doing dancing at this point is a little bewildering; poetic licence I suppose

: snopes.com says:

: "Ring Around the Rosie" is simply a nursery rhyme of indefinite origin and no specific meaning, and someone, long after the fact, concocted an inventive "explanation" for its creation.

: www.snopes.com/ language/literary/rosie.htm