Re: Do Eskimos count like New Guineans?

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:58:22 GMT, Richard Wordingham
<jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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sci.lang:

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 20, 1:42 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 05:26:43 -0800 (PST), "Peter T. Daniels"
On Jan 20, 1:36 am, richard01 <richardparke...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Eeny meeny miney moe ( I don't dare say the next bit - it's not very
politically correct)
"Catch a tiger by the toe"???

An older version is 'catch a *** by the toe'.

Unknown where I came from.

The standard version I heard as a child. (Derbyshire, in
case anyone is compiling a map.)

I'd guess that it survived a bit longer in common use in
England than it did in many parts of the U.S. The one that
I actually learned as a child was 'catch a rabbit by the
toe'.

Brian
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