rich-joy, if you want to know about "other countries" why (try to) title the thread "british only"?! (I thought it might be "Britain Online", but no...)

Anyhow, these sound similar to the American children's counting-out system "Eenie meenie miney mo", or the Norwegian one my mother knew but that I failed to memorize properly while she was still alive (it sounded more or less like "Eller meller Deg forteller, something or ooey gor, something on something spawn, snip snop tutti rutti utti", maybe some Norsky can fill in the blanks in my brain).

Liland