Mini mini miny more ...

[nq:1]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.

Rob Bannister

[nq:2]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
[nq:1]Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.[/nq]
The rest?
And why I don't find 'eeny' or 'meeny' or 'miny' in the dictionary?

[nq:1]And why I don't find 'eeny' or 'meeny' or 'miny' in the dictionary?[/nq]
Because they're nonsense words.

Dena Jo
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[nq:1]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
I know it as:
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go
My mother says to pick this one
(then improvise with as many syllables as you need to get to the choice you want)

[nq:2]Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.[/nq]
[nq:1]The rest? And why I don't find 'eeny' or 'meeny' or 'miny' in the dictionary?[/nq]
"Eenee, Meenee, Mainee, Mo" is how Kipling spelled it.

http://oldpoetry.com/poetry/13580/showline=1
The words aren't in my dictionaries, either. I'm sure Donna will b

[nq:1]I wouldn't expect them to "mean" anything at all, any more than "fa la la" means anything.[/nq]
"Fa la la" means "do it there".

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[nq:2]I wouldn't expect them to "mean" anything at all, any more than "fa la la" means anything.[/nq]
"Fa la la" means "do it there".[/nq]
Is that what it means in "Deck the Halls"?
Who knew?

Michael West
Melbourne, Australia

[nq:1]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
The rhyme I learnt as a child was
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch a *** by the toe
If he hollers, let him go
Eeny meeny miny mo
I will not enter into discussion about political correctness. I merely report a rhyme that was commonly used far away and long ago. But it does seem odd

[nq:2]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
[nq:1]Eeny, meeny, miny, mo.[/nq]
Always followed, back in less PC days, by "catch a *** by the toe. If he hollers let him go eeny, meeny, miny, mo".

Making decisions was so much simpler back in those days.
Charles Riggs

Thus spake R F:
[nq:2]What's the words that starts with 'mini mini miny more ...' that kids use to pick a choice?[/nq]
[nq:1]I know it as: Eeny meeny miny mo Catch a tiger by the toe If he hollers let him go My mother says to pick this one (then improvise with as many syllables as you need to get to the choice you want)[/nq]
Funny.
I learned it as:
Eeny meeny miny mo
Catch