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From:  Sally Bradshaw <songful@c...>
Sally Bradshaw <songful@c...>
Date:  Thu Dec 28, 2000  12:26 am
Subject:  12 days of Christmas


I heard recently that the nonsense rhymes of this carol would seem to come
from cod translations from French, ie "a partridge - une perdrix" becomes
"a partridge in a pear tree". That seems to me to be the most probable
source of the words.

Sally

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