The meaning behind the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme has long been a mystery, but some speculate that "Humpty Dumpty" may have ...

Where did this nursery rhyme come from and what does it mean, exactly? Who is Humpty Dumpty and why was he sitting on a wall, to begin with? Answering these questions is precisely the point of ...

The oral nature of nursery rhymes often makes ... Carey Richards mentioned learning “Humpty Dumpty” at 5 years old “propounded as a riddle.” In other words, you’d recite the rhyme ...

Featured in one of the most popular nursery rhymes of all time, Humpty Dumpty has long been pictured as an innocent egg. There are probably thousands of illustrations of his shell, going all the ...

Many of us grew up singing the children's nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty ... when there's actually no mention of him being an egg in the words. "Who decided Humpty Dumpty was an egg?" the user tweeted.

If you've ever lovingly coloured in a picture of Humpty Dumpty as an egg, you might want to look away now. Equally, if you've got a cherished book of illustrated nursery rhymes from your childhood ...

A house on the site said to be the inspiration for the Humpty Dumpty nursery rhyme has been put up for sale. The rhyme may have been inspired when in 1530 statesman Cardinal Wolsey died after ...

Of course, Humpty Dumpty isn't the only nursery rhyme to reveal a potentially darker side ... but the moment we start to scratch the surface of the words beneath the tune, some of them are downright ...