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One moment she is on the language nursery slopes; the next she is sitting in on meetings of the Académie française, the organisation that finds french equivalents for English incoming words – la beuverie express, for example, for binge drinking.
"As I was going by Charing Cross" (sometimes referred to as "As I was going to Charing Cross"), is an English language nursery rhyme.
This rhyme was first printed in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, the oldest surviving collection of English language nursery rhymes, published c. 1744 with the lyrics very similar to those still used today: Bah, Bah a black Sheep, Have you any Wool?
Jack is the most common name used in English language nursery rhymes and by the 18th century represented an archetypal Everyman hero, while by the end of the Middle Ages Jill or Gill had come to mean a young girl or a sweetheart.
Learn the words to some songs in that language: nursery rhymes, traditional songs and modern hits are all good options.
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