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The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Iona Opie

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren By Iona Opie

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie


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Summary

Looks at the superstitions, practices and beliefs, rhymes and chants, jokes, nicknames and juvenile slang that continue to flourish among children in England, Scotland and Wales. Iona and Peter Opie also wrote The Singing Game, A Nursery Companion and The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book.

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren Summary

The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie

This study looks at the superstitions, practices and beliefs, rhymes and chants, catcalls and retorts, stock jokes, ruderies, riddles, epithets, nicknames and juvenile slang that continue to flourish among children in England, Scotland and Wales. First published in 1959, it discloses a wealth of traditional lore and language. Iona and Peter Opie also wrote The Singing Game, A Nursery Companion, The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, Children's Games in Street and Playground, The Oxford Book of Children's Verse and The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse.

Table of Contents

Just for fun; wit and repartee; guile; riddles; parody and impropriety; topical rhymes; code of oral legislation; nicknames and epithets; unpopular children - jeers and torments; half-belief; children's calendar; occasional customs; some curiosities; friendship and fortune; partisanship; the child and authority; franks.

Additional information

GOR007459551
9780192820594
0192820591
The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Opie
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Oxford University Press
19870901
438
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