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Six Impossible Episodes: Mother Goose 3

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Scott Joplin and the Cakewalk Unlocking a Core Memory

The Oxford English Dictionary cites little Miss Muffet as the first written use of toughet meaning in to quote from there. There's also some back and forth about what is meant by a toughet in this poem. Toughet can mean a hillock or a mound, but it can also mean a footstool. Some of these go back to the early 18th century, so it's possible that their variations on a little poetic formula.

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