JPIX, Sukkot Edition - is UP!
Peruse some beautiful photos of different sukkot and neighborhoods at Leora's blog, here. Don't forget to look for Toodles' sukkah door painting!
The Great Debate: Is it Itsy Bitsy, or Inky Dinky, of Spider Fame?
For the better part of a year, I've had an on-again, off-again debate with my D.H. as to the "correct" adjective in the children's finger-play nursery rhyme, "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" (now you know which one I favor). My D. H. insists that the correct descriptive is "inky dinky," whereas I demur. I vaguely recollect from my own childhood, either hearing " itsy-bitsy spider ," or even more familiar to me, the description "eency-weency," referring to said spider's miniscule size, yet plucky persistance, and how he (she?) braved the violent rainstorm which "washed it out" after the arduous climb up the water spout, yet doggedly climbed the spout again, after the sun came out and 'dried up all the rain.' Many, if not most of our American nursery rhymes originated on the other side of the pond, in England, for obvious reasons: the American colonists were British in origin, and brought with them the culture an
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However, the best way to get me to link it is if you send the info to me in an email. That way I won't miss it which I sometimes do if I don't have time to search for it (which is most of the time!)