The catchy tune is known as a “counting-out rhyme” and it’s often used to select a person for a game or for a prize. It’s also commonly used (as above with Homer Simpson) when choosing ...

An illustration of the counting-out game “eeny, meeny, miny, moe” from Clara E. Atwood’s ‘A Book of Nursery Rhymes,’ published in 1901. | Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain (illustration ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. We use numbers everyday so it’s easy to forget that counting isn’t just about learning numeracy skills, it also ...

and Hector Protector (""dressed all in green"") star in The Real Mother Goose Classic Color Rhymes (save ... board book stand out. Similarly, The Real Mother Goose Classic Counting Rhymes presents ...

This 'counting-out rhyme' was part of the playground ritual when trying to randomly select a person from a group, often for the purposes of a game. The child left after all the other group members ...

A common way for kids to decide who’s the undesirable “it” in a game of tag is to use the counting-out rhyme “eeny, meeny, ...