| 词条 | Sticks and Stones |
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"Sticks and Stones" is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme persuades the child victim of name-calling to ignore the taunt, to refrain from physical retaliation, and to remain calm and good-living. The full rhyme is usually a variant of:
The rhyme is an example of linguistic Siamese twins. First appearanceAlexander William Kinglake in his Eothen (written 1830, published in London, John Ollivier, 1844) used "golden sticks and stones". It is reported[1] to have appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, where it is presented as an "old adage" in this form:
The phrase also appeared in 1872, where it is presented as advice in Tappy's Chicks: and Other Links Between Nature and Human Nature, by Mrs. George Cupples.[2] The version used in that work runs:
Throughout the web there are different essays about why each statement is true or false. A version was featured in The Who's 1981 song, "The Quiet One", in which the vocals were performed by bassist John Entwistle, where he mentioned this term from another source he picked up and sang this term twice where he changed "your" from the first set to "my" in the second set.
Popular culture{{Wiktionary|sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me}}Several variations of the phrase have been referred to in popular culture, such as:
Sources1. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones.html |title= The Phrase Finder |first= Gary |last=Martin |date= |work= |publisher=Phrases.org.uk |accessdate=September 22, 2012}} {{song-stub}}2. ^{{cite book |last1= Cupples |first1= Mrs. George [Ann Jane Dunn Douglas] |authorlink1=Mrs. George Cupples |url= https://archive.org/details/tappyschicksand00cogoog |title=Tappy's Chicks: And Other Links Between Nature and Human Nature (1872) |date= 1872 |publisher= Strahan & Co |location= London |page= 78 }} 3. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0688047/ |title= The Rockford Files |author= |date= |work= |publisher=IMDB |accessdate=October 4, 2018}} 4. ^{{cite book |url= https://books.google.co.in/books?id=B1uTKBOnTDAC&pg=PA222&lpg=PA222&dq=sticks+and+stones+may+break+my+bones+movie&source=bl&ots=BXR3ZT4m5a&sig=Svzw02wq6Hg0ZWLr9BaZO2UjNLU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjYrrKPs-zdAhXI2LwKHeUnAQcQ6AEwGXoECAEQAQ#v=onepage&q=sticks%20and%20stones%20may%20break%20my%20bones%20movie&f=false |title= Comedy Quotes from the Movies |first= Larry |last=Langman |first2=Paul |last2=Gold |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate=October 4, 2018}} 5. ^Munroe, Randall. [https://www.xkcd.com/1216/ #1216] xkcd. 1 : Children's songs |
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