Talk:There Was a Crooked Man

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Removed most of the first paragraph since it just paraphrased the poem. --Tocharianne 18:57, 3 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Crooked sixpence

In verse "He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile" I think that the crooked sixpence refers to a discarded, bender love token. --Chris Buttigieg 17:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The Wolf Among Us" video game

Removed a lot of the details regarding his role in The Wolf Among Us. TWAU plot details belong on TWAU pages. --PlayAVideoGame (talk) 02:14, 10 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article needs a section about contemporary cultural references to this 1800s rhyme. It seems like Crooked Man is featured in TWAU and should be mentioned somehow in this article. -71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:19, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

pronounced as 'crookED'

www.rhymes.org.uk/there_was_a-crooked_man.htm

  The word crooked is pronounced as 'crookED' the emphasis being placed upon the 'ED' in the word. This was common in olde England and many references can be found in this type of pronunciation in the works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

-71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:27, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

the word STILE

What sources are there for how popular this (and other) traditional nursery rhymes have been in which places at which times?

As a nursery rhyme, these are important foundations of the education of children, foundations of language usage and words. These traditional materials expose young children to obsolete words that they might otherwise never be familiar with. This particulr rhyme can be the basis of knowing the word STILE which would otherwise never be known by children growing up in cities.

Since the word STILE is rather antique/obsolete, and the thing itself somewhat fading from existance (according to current regulations in England), it would be good if the article had an illustration of the rhyme that included a stile, and perhaps discussed the term etc a little. There must be some famous classic illustration from the 1800s that is out of copyright that could be used? -71.174.188.32 (talk) 15:42, 8 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]