# This Little Piggy - WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 23, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073 "2009-02-23T17:53:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/21 "2009-02-24T14:58:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s a truly ancient rhyme, since the last little piggy “cried “wee-wee-wee” Olduvai Home.” When come back, bring Oldupai. ---
**Author:** ![BJMoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@BJMoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BJMoose)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/22 "2009-02-24T15:16:33Z")
> [@Huerta88](#): > > Fabulously wealthy pop singers and rappers have rhymes ten times lamer than that. > > Emily Dickinson is taught in colleges around the world and routinely forced “rhymes” that were based only on the written words having kinda sorta similar letters, even if pronounced very differently. > > I doubt the stringency of the rhyme standards for nursery doggerel were ever especially high, all that being said . . . . The technical term is “sight rhyme”, and it has been with us for ages. But I’m inclined to agree that allowing, say, _glove_ and _prove_ as a rhyming pair is something of a cop-out. Even though the work of art now under consideration is classified as a Nursery Rhyme, I wonder if any rhyme scheme was intended at all. And if so, that scheme obviously is ABCDB, not ABCBD! When did hogs start eating cattle, anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/23 "2009-02-24T15:27:44Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > I sausage what you did there. Pull it over and pork it, all of you. It’s the wurst I’ve seen here. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/24 "2009-02-24T19:19:43Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > As a child I didn’t know that, and assumed that the little piggy peed all the way home. “He went wee wee !” 😃 Little piggies do squeal, especially if they are are at the opposite level of the stairs from their human. They also pee in litter boxes. And go for swims. [http://www.cuteoverload.com/2009/02/kingsford-is-on.html](http://www.cuteoverload.com/2009/02/kingsford-is-on.html) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/25 "2009-02-24T22:32:04Z")
> [@palindromemordnilap](#): > > Did someone think “home” rhymes with “none”?. The pronounciation of words changes over the centuries. I’ve read that in Jack & Jill, the words “water” and “after” rhymed properly [in the 17th century](http://nurseryrhymes.allinfoabout.com/jack-and-jill). Maybe the same thing applies here. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/26 "2009-02-24T22:58:25Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > When did hogs start eating cattle, anyway? It gets [wurst.](http://www.amazon.com/Pearls-Before-Swine-BLTs-Taste/dp/0740734377) ---
**Author:** ![sjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sjc)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/27 "2009-02-24T23:24:25Z")
> [@BJMoose](#): > > The technical term is “sight rhyme”, and it has been with us for ages. But I’m inclined to agree that allowing, say, _glove_ and _prove_ as a rhyming pair is something of a cop-out. I _glove_ and _prove_ almost certainly rhymed at one point. If the poetry you this came from was older (or from a dialect that kept the old pronunciation) this isn’t lazy in the slightest but a perfectly normal rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073/28 "2009-02-24T23:40:20Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Little piggies do squeal, especially if they are are at the opposite level of the stairs from their human. They also pee in litter boxes. And go for swims. [http://www.cuteoverload.com/2009/02/kingsford-is-on.html](http://www.cuteoverload.com/2009/02/kingsford-is-on.html) Squee! I want a house pig! Other than my two-legged one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-little-piggy-wtf/487073.md?page=1)