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Taffy was a Welshman

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"Taffy was a Welshman" is an English language nursery rhyme with anti-Welsh lyrics, which was popular in England between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. [1]

14 relations: Cardiff, David (disambiguation), English Folk Dance and Song Society, English language, Iona and Peter Opie, James Halliwell-Phillipps, Nursery rhyme, River Taff, Roud Folk Song Index, Saint David's Day, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Welsh Marches, Welsh people.

Cardiff

Cardiff (Caerdydd) is the capital of, and largest city in, Wales, and the eleventh-largest city in the United Kingdom.

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David (disambiguation)

David was the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and a figure in the scriptures of Abrahamic religions.

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English Folk Dance and Song Society

The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS, or pronounced 'EFF-diss') was formed in 1932 when two organisations merged: the Folk-Song Society and the English Folk Dance Society.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Iona and Peter Opie

Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, CBE, FBA (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were a married team of folklorists, who applied modern techniques to children's literature, summarised in their studies The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959).

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James Halliwell-Phillipps

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, born James Orchard Halliwell (21 June 1820 – 3 January 1889), was an English Shakespearean scholar, antiquarian, and a collector of English nursery rhymes and fairy tales.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term only dates from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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River Taff

The River Taff (Afon Taf) is a river in Wales.

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Roud Folk Song Index

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.

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Saint David's Day

Saint David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March, the date of Saint David's death in 589 AD.

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Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book

Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the first anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.

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Vaughan Williams Memorial Library

The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library (VWML) is the library and archive of the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS), located in the society's London headquarters, Cecil Sharp House.

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Welsh Marches

The Welsh Marches (Y Mers) is an imprecisely defined area along and around the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are a nation and ethnic group native to, or otherwise associated with, Wales, Welsh culture, Welsh history, and the Welsh language.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taffy_was_a_Welshman

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