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To: norton

I recently learned this reading a book recommended here on FR and immediately wondered if 'buboe' was the source for 'boo-boo'. Wouldn't surprise me since 'Ring around the Rosy' morphed from a song about death by the same means.

Fascinating idea, I bet you're onto something there!

42 posted on 06/01/2007 8:37:46 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (In the end, history is what God remembers.)

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To: To Hell With Poverty; norton

Ring around the Rosy' morphed from a song about death

Not so.

45 posted on 06/02/2007 1:35:39 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Peace Begins in the Womb)

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