243 – Analysis of Children‘s Nursery Rhymes 🎶

As always, we look at the hard-hitting serious world topics here at RnR English and today is no different! We look at the language and content from some classic English Nursery Rhymes, but we also take a look at Michael Jackson’s 🕺, the difference between going out and out out 🥤, what happens when you have 10 people in a bed 🛏️ (other) ways to have fun with your clothes off 👚 and lots more! So get yourself ready, put on your headphones and keeeeeeep on ROCKin’, baby! 👊

Keep a look out for this RnR Vocab in today’s episode:

I’m a bit on edge
Most people would have just binned the podcast
But I decided to go with it
I was in the thick of it (being a mother)
You took the words out of my mouth
Is this a sign of things to come?
Shake your booty
Partially bald, a bit ginger
That’s a mouthful that
Hush little baby
She can dream on! (if she thinks I’m buying her a diamond ring)
Row your boat down the stream
I’m jumping the gun here, have you got rocker by baby
Really haunting
These were the years when he was losing the plot
Some things are just too difficult to get your head round
Mind blown
A device to destroy an egg it would be a horse’s huff
It’s raining it’s pouring
The last verse is “sad little duck went out one day”
I would get a clip round the ear
Everything is above board, no funny business
We were crammed in

RnR Grammar

A very small thing today, but if you look at the expression “it’s difficult to get your head round”, you might think “is it is around?” Well yes, you’d be right… in America! In the US they use “around” and in the UK we use “round”, you’ll see this in many other situations too like “we just had a look round the shop” or “we just had a look around the shop”