NAME

Acme::MetaSyntactic::counting_rhyme - The counting rhyme theme

DESCRIPTION

Based on popular children counting rhymes, mostly used to decide roles in games (who'll be the wolf?)

FULL VERSIONS

English

    Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
    Catch a tiger by the toe
    If he hollers let him go,
    Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

French

    Am, stram, gram,
    Pique et pique et colégram
    Bourre, bourre et ratatam
    Am, stram, gram.

Dutch

    Iene, miene, mutte,
    tien pond grutten,
    tien pond kaas,
    Iene, miene, mutte,
    is de baas.

German

    Eene, Meene, Muh, und raus bist du
    Eene, Meene, Maus, und du bist raus
    Eene, Meene, Meck, und du bist weg
    Weg bist du noch lange nicht,
    sag mir erst wie alt du bist.

CONTRIBUTORS

Xavier Caron proposed the idea in French, and Paul-Christophe Varoutas provided the English version. Abigail provided the Dutch version. Yanick and Anja Champoux provided the German theme.

Introduced in version 0.30, published on July 11, 2005.

Patched a typo in version 0.39, published on September 12, 2005.

Updated with the Dutch theme in version 0.47, published on November 7, 2005.

Updated with the German theme in version 0.68, published on April 3, 2006.

SEE ALSO

Acme::MetaSyntactic, Acme::MetaSyntactic::Locale.