because of the long 'eye' sound at the ending
It's a rather archaic way to say 45. Think of it as five plus forty. This construction is used in the English nursery rhyme, "Sing a Song of Sixpence": Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. That is, there were 24 blackbirds baked in the pie.
It isn't a perfect rhyme, in other words, not all the syllables rhyme, but it is close enough to pass as a rhyme.
pie is a delicious desert.
No, school does not rhyme with all.
Florence nighting gale invented the pie and the pie chart
The queen baked a pie for the king in the nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence." The maid in the nursery rhyme serves the pie to the king.
Yes.
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they rhyme as much as pie and pickle, which is to say... they don't
"Red" and "Request" do not rhyme. They have to have the same vowel sounds, such as, "Pie" or "Fly."
24 blackbirds were baked in the pie. In the actual rhyme it is written in the old style of four-and-twenty.
"Sky" and "pie" are words that rhyme with "high" and can also have meanings related to smoke, such as in phrases like "smoke up to the sky" or "smoking a pie."
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"Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie" is a line from a popular English nursery rhyme. It refers to a fictional character named Georgie Porgie who kissed the girls and made them cry. The rhyme dates back to the 19th century and is often recited as a children's nursery rhyme.
Some words that rhyme with "pie" are dye, lie, sigh, and tie.
There once was an overweight guy Who feasted on nothing but pie He said, "This society Prizes variety But I'll eat my pie till I die."
Pie bald it's a type of horse