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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread peas porridge? #7887 10/14/00 08:36 AM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 29 Sonoma County, California M metameta OP newbie OP metameta newbie M Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 29 Sonoma County, California I'm curious about the origin of "peas porridge" in the children's rhyme. I know that some like it hot and some like it cold, but I've never known what the stuff is. I suspect that "peas porridge" is a corruption of some other phrase. Can anyone help with this? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted peas porridge? metameta 10/14/00 08:36 AM Re: peas porridge? paulb 10/14/00 09:49 AM Re: peas porridge? belMarduk 10/14/00 10:44 AM Re: peas porridge? tsuwm 10/14/00 01:35 PM Re: peas porridge? metameta 10/14/00 06:22 PM Re: peas porridge? maverick 10/14/00 11:08 PM Re: peas porridge? belMarduk 10/15/00 02:03 AM Re: peas porridge? Bridget 10/15/00 06:40 AM Re: peas porridge? belMarduk 10/15/00 11:34 PM Re: peas porridge? TEd Remington 10/16/00 03:19 PM Re: peas porridge? maverick 10/16/00 04:36 PM Re: peas porridge? maverick 10/16/00 05:04 PM Re: peas porridge? Bridget 10/17/00 07:21 AM Re: peas porridge? Jackie 10/17/00 10:56 AM Re: peas porridge? AnnaStrophic 10/17/00 11:59 AM Re: peas porridge? Jackie 10/17/00 12:20 PM Re: peas porridge? maverick 10/17/00 12:37 PM Re: peas porridge? Bingley 10/18/00 04:14 AM Re: peas porridge? RhubarbCommando 10/18/00 12:17 PM Re: peas porridge? AnnaStrophic 10/18/00 01:05 PM Re: peas porridge? FishonaBike 10/23/00 01:26 PM Re: peas porridge? Jackie 10/23/00 02:13 PM Re: peas porridge? FishonaBike 10/23/00 09:18 PM Re: peas porridge? Jackie 10/18/00 01:27 PM Re: peas porridge? jmh 10/23/00 06:46 AM Yellow pudding and text Marty 10/23/00 09:28 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text belMarduk 10/23/00 09:33 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text Bingley 10/24/00 04:54 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text jmh 10/24/00 05:53 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text Marty 10/24/00 08:11 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text tsuwm 10/24/00 08:22 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text Marty 10/24/00 08:49 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text FishonaBike 10/24/00 11:40 PM Re: Yellow pudding and text RhubarbCommando 10/25/00 08:03 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text belMarduk 10/26/00 01:53 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text tsuwm 10/26/00 03:31 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text Jackie 10/26/00 10:07 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text shanks 10/26/00 11:49 AM Re: Yellow pudding and text shanks 10/26/00 08:03 AM Re: peas porridge? awaddle 10/20/00 10:37 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,915 Posts230,020 Members9,198 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members testawad, Bill_L, achz, MAGNVSTALSMA, Burlyfish 9,198 Registered Users Who's Online Now 1 members (A C Bowden), 351 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 24 A C Bowden 10 LukeJavan8 5 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,973 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,958 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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