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What is the origin of the statement sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt you?
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∙ 11y ago
Sticks and Stones is a double entendre for Palestein. Sticks - palas/pides/pales (roots in Latin and Greek); Stones - "stein" (Yiddish via Latin / Greek / Aramaic / Hebrew" (i.e. Ben Stein is Ben Stone). "Words" in English is the pronunciation of "Weres" in old Yiddish a.k.a. High German. "Harm me" not "hurt me" is the alternate way of referring to Germany, i.e."Harmanli"(Bg) or "Harmanme"(Hg), the formal High German/Yiddish name being Ashkenazi. It all relates to a growing schism between pre-WWars German Jews and Palesteinian Jews, Palestinian Jews calling German Jews "antisemites" (thus coined the expression). Basically, Palestein may bust my balls, but your words(men) will never Germane/Harm/Have Significance - as many German Jews believed that God led righteous Jews out of their enemies midst in Palestein to a new Oz/Aus/Ash promised land of plenty and peace. The World Wars, for obvious reasons, changed the sentiments of many rabis on this issue and, actually, resolved the schism to rejoin or reunite Jews in the cause for a sovereign state, which became Israel in 1949.
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∙ 13y agoThis phrase is a misquote, so here is the original. Although sticks and stones may break bones, they will heal, words can go much deeper and cause lasting damage.
Words Hurt.
Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words can also hurt me:
Stones and sticks break only skin
While words are ghosts that haunt me.
Slant and curved the word swords fall
To pierce and stick inside me;
Bats and bricks may ache through bones
But words can mortify me.
Pain from words has left its scar
On mind and heart that's tender,
Cuts and bruises now have healed
It's words that I remember!
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With some sticks and stones that'll break ur bones.
How they built the Parthenon?
With some sticks and stones that'll break ur bones.
Who said sticks and stones can break your bones but words can break your heart?
A very early phrase, origin may be unknown. Used in an American periodical , The Christian Recorder dated March 1862
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What does 'sticks and stones' mean?
The entire phrase is "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never harm me." It means that someone who is childishly calling names and insulting you cannot harm you.
How was life before farme rihanna?
We had sticks and stones which broke our bones and chains and whips excite me.
Where does sick and stones can break your bones come from?
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me!" is a children's nursery rhyme that appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862.
Is sticks and stones are never going to break you an idiom?
No, it means exactly what it seems to mean. It's an old saying. The actual saying is "Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can never harm you."
What did tocobaga Indians use as jewelery?
they used sticks, and hunting knives
