Ellery bellery ripti rah Ripty ropty rollah Every man who wears a shirt Ought to wear a collar. This was a counting-out rhyme when I was a child, about 1934. In those days collars were not attached to the shirt, were laundered separately and then attached to the shirt with a collar-stud. If you were poor, you wore a shirt without a collar. As a child I didn't realise how unkind this rhyme was.
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