Peter Piper
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The illustration of Peter Piper from the 1836 American edn. of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
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| Language | English |
| Written | England |
| Published | 1813 |
| Songwriter(s) | Traditional |
"Peter Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19745.
Contents
Lyrics
Common modern versions include:
- Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
- A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
- If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
- Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?[1]
Origins
The earliest version of this tongue twister was published in Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by John Harris (1756–1846) in London in 1813, which includes one name tongue-twister for each letter of the alphabet in the same style. However, the rhyme was apparently known at least a generation earlier.[2] Some authors have identified the subject of the rhyme as Pierre Poivre, an eighteenth‑century French horticulturalist and government administrator of Mauritius, who once investigated the Seychelles' potential for spice cultivation.[3][4]
References
- ↑ I. Opie and P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (Oxford University Press, 1951, 2nd edn., 1997), p. 347.
- ↑ H. Carpenter and M. Prichard, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 408.
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External links
- Text of Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation at Project Gutenberg
Peter Piper public domain audiobook at LibriVox
