Peter Peopler Picked a Plot to Pitch his Poppolin
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Jump to navigationJump to search- "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers" (nursery rhyme) an example of alliteration and atongue twister
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
- pitch: to erect (for example, a tent)
- plot: a small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose: a grave
- plot: conspiracy
- pitch: also a piece of land, one marked out for sport
- Pied Piper of Hamelin (Poppolin?)
- peopler: one who populates a country; colonizer, settler
- popolino (Italian): the lower classes
- poplin: Huguenot merchants expelled from France brought the poplin cloth trade to Dublin in teh 17th century
