• @AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    78 birds in total. They’re all birds. No humans or gold.

    First day of Christmas: 1 partridge in a pear tree

    Second day of Christmas: 2 turtledoves

    Third day of Christmas: 3 French hens

    Fourth day of Christmas: 4 calling birds (blackbirds)

    Fifth day of Christmas: 5 golden rings (pheasants)

    Sixth day of Christmas: 6 geese a-laying

    Seventh day of Christmas: 7 swans a-swimming

    Eighth day of Christmas: 8 maids a-milking (magpies or cattle egret)

    Ninth day of Christmas: 9 ladies dancing (lapwings)

    Tenth day of Christmas: 10 lords a-leaping (cuckoos)

    Eleventh day of Christmas: 11 pipers piping (sandpipers)

    Twelfth day of Christmas: 12 drummers drumming (ruffled grouse)

    • @xantoxis@lemmy.world
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      137 months ago

      This is an impressive post. You have:

      1. Misunderstood the plain language of the song, in which each thing is given on every successive day following its first appearance (not simply one time each),
      2. Presented a niche theory about the meanings of the lyrics as if it is fact, and
      3. Missed the joke.

      Other lemmy users: bring your A game, the standard has been set

    • @funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      37 months ago

      I’m still trying to hold up that the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day, Dec 25. And finishes on the Twelfth Night (like the Shakespeare play).