# Ring Around A WHAT?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 25, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470 "2001-05-25T12:11:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Kate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kate)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2001, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470/1 "2001-05-25T12:11:49Z")
OK, once and for all - did the nursery rhyme “Ring Around a Rosy” originate during or as a result of the Black Plague? I’ve heard and read conflicting reports about this and want to see conclusive evidence!
/Kate
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2001, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470/2 "2001-05-25T12:33:27Z")
[No.](http://www.snopes2.com/language/literary/rosie.htm)
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470/3 "2001-05-25T18:14:34Z")
Cecil discusses this on page. 478 of _More of the Straight Dope_, but I can’t find the column online.
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### Author:  [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2001, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ring-around-a-what/66470/4 "2001-05-25T19:40:39Z")
My recollection as a child, decades ago in London:
Ring a ring o’rosies,
A pocket full of posies,
Tishoo! Tishoo!
We all fall down.
Whereupon we did (and kids today have the Internet…)