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, Paul-Christophe Varoutas, Abigail, Yanick and Anja Champoux.

CHANGES

• 2012-05-14 - v1.001

  Updated with an =encoding pod command in Acme-Meta version 1.001.

• 2012-05-07 - v1.000

  Received its own version number in Acme-MetaSyntactic-Themes version 1.000.

• 2006-04-03

  Updated with the German theme in Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.68.

• 2006-03-24

  Yanick Champoux provided a patch to add a German countring rhyme (RT #18330).

• 2005-11-07

  Updated with the Dutch theme in Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.47.

• 2005-10-25

  Abigail provided a patch to add a Dutch counting rhyme.

• 2005-09-12

  Patched a typo in Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.39.

• 2005-07-11

  Introduced in Acme-MetaSyntactic version 0.30.

  Xavier Caron proposed the idea in French, and Paul-Christophe Varoutas provided the English version.

SEE ALSO

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