Rarely do classic nursery rhymes use words that most readers don’t know and have never heard before. But “Little Miss Muffet” is one of those rare exceptions. The short verse, about a young girl and a ...

When it comes to classic nursery rhymes, “Little Miss Muffet” is right up there with “Humpty Dumpty” and “The Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Here are answers to all your burning questions about the history of ...

Food may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nursery rhymes. But stop and run through some of them. * Wasn’t little Miss Muffet eating something when that spider “came up ...

Nursery rhymes may not make sense to the 21st-century child. What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, ...

There is a reason that nursery rhymes and lullabies have existed and subsisted for decades or even hundreds of years. Their classic messages, catchy lyrics, and indelible characters bring joy to our ...

Little Miss Muffet’s first name was probably Patience. The heroine of the nursery rhyme is assumed to be Patience Moffat, the daughter of Thomas Moffat (d. 1604), an Elizabethan physician and author.

CHICAGO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Whey, a high-protein dairy product best known from the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme, has become a popular addition to athletic diets and will soon be trading at the ...