| Peter Piper | |
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Real Name |
Peter Piper |
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First Appearance |
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Origin[]
"Peter Piper" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known tongue-twister.
Common modern versions include:
- 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 that Peter Piper picked?
Public Domain Appearances[]
Literary appearances[]
- “Peter Piper” (tongue‐twister) (first published 1797)
- The Port Folio (29 May 1802)
- Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain & Perfect Pronunciation (1813)
- Koningsmarke, the Long Finne, by James Kirke Paulding (1823) – mentioned in context of a character of the same name
- Grandmamma’s Tales (19th century)
- Mother Goose for Grown Folks, by Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (1859)
- The Dream Fox Story Book, by Mabel Osgood Wright (1900)
- Racketty‐Packetty House, by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1906)
- Mother Goose Comes to Portland, by Frederic W. Freeman (1918)
- Pee‐Wee Harris on the Trail, by Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1922)
- The Real Personages of Mother Goose, by Katherine Elwes Thomas (1930)
Theatrical and musical appearances[]
- Directions for a Mother Goose Party, by Geo. B. Bartlett (1882)
- Boys of Mother Goose Land (play), by Stanley Schell (1913)
- The Marriage of Jack and Jill (play), by Lilian Clisby Bridgham (1913)
- The Modern Mother Goose (play), by Helen Hamilton (1916)
- “The Story Book Ball” (song), words by George Perry, music by Billie Montgomery (1917)
Comic appearances[]
- Four Color #126