24 blackbirds were baked in the pie. In the actual rhyme it is written in the old style of four-and-twenty.
Blackbirds are a bird that are a type of thrush. How many of them there are in existence is not know. In the childrens song Sing A Song of Sixpence, there four and 20 blackbirds baked into a pie.
Blackbirds reproduce by laying eggs.
a group of Blackbirds is called a murder
There is no specific collective noun for blackbirds but any collective noun for birds will do; for example a flight of blackbirds or a flock of blackbirds.
24 blackbirds were baked in the pie. In the actual rhyme it is written in the old style of four-and-twenty.
4 and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie
4 and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
If someone is one and twenty, they are one and twenty years old, or one plus twenty years old, or 1 + 20 or 21 years old. Another similar wording is "four and twenty black birds" from Sing a Song of Sixpence, the well known English nursery rhyme. In those couple of lines of verse, four and twenty blackbirds is four plus twenty blackbirds or 4 + 20 or 24 blackbirds.
Agatha Christie's Poirot - 1989 Four and Twenty Blackbirds 1-4 is rated/received certificates of: UK:U (video rating) (1989) (1998) (2005)
They are referring to the term "four score" Score is twenty, so four score (80) plus 20 is 100 so yeah 100 Blackbirds in a pie.
Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie.
Four and twenty blackbirds.
Blackbirds are a bird that are a type of thrush. How many of them there are in existence is not know. In the childrens song Sing A Song of Sixpence, there four and 20 blackbirds baked into a pie.
Four and twenty blackbirds
Four and twenty blackbirds
Sing a Song of sixpence A pocket fullof rye Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie