Singing songs to our toddler has uncovered a schism:
My wife knows the song as “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider.”
I know the song as “The Eensy-Weensy Spider.”
Naturally, I’ve googled this, and itsy-bitsy seems to be the more popular version – though there are several spelling varations for eensy-weensy so it’s hard to be sure.
But it makes me wonder: which version do you sing? Itsy-bitsy, eensy-weensy, yellow polkadot, or something else?
Itsy-bitsy.
Anything else is … kinky.
The correct answer is this. Or itsy-bitsy.
That’s the version I know.
Itsy-bitsy wins by a margin of more than 9:1. And I agree.
I think I learned “itsy-bitsy” in kindergarten, but I’ve more often heard “eensy-weensy” or “teensy-weensy” since then.
Of course it’s itsy-bitsy.
Eensy-weensy doesn’t make any sense.
Eensy-weensy.
itsy bitsy.
Eensy-Weensy
Itsy bitsy.
Itsy bitsy
I think it was probably an orb spider, but I wouldn’t rule out a tarantula.
Itsy bitsy.
Dude, how could you? Warn a girl next time!
I actually knew it as both. I have found that I have a lot of duplications in my memory. My mom grew up in upstate New York and I grew up in central Massachusetts. For the most part, this didn’t matter. But occasionally, I would say something that I picked up from my mom and no one had a clue what I was talking about, so I learned another way to say it.
Sustained. 
Itsy Bitsy
Another itsy-bitsy here.
Eensy-Weensy contorts your mouth into this wide, stupid-ass grin. Hence, Eensy-Weensy makes you look like a tool in front of your children and your children’s friends.
Itsy-Bitsy by a mile.
Itsy-weensy. (Eensy-bitsy is just wrong.)
