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Thread #49672 Message #1388587
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
25-Jan-05 - 07:37 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Ring around the Rosy / Rosey
Subject: RE: Origins: Ring Around The Rosey's History??
More of that plague nonsense. It really is a song about hay fever and ash ma (asma, azma, asthma). Atch-oo!
(In Middle English, asma; but scholars Greekified it)