Talk:The Twelve Days of Christmas (carol)

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 Definition:  English Christmas carol which enumerates a series of increasingly grandiose gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas, ultimately leaving the singer with 364 gifts from her 'true love.' [d] [e]
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I would like to point out that the pipers outrank the lords, ladies, dancers, maids, and poultry, as is apt. But I have no idea why the drummers outrank the pipers. And of course the common version omits: Thirteen fiddlers a-fiddling.

So what does "perdrix" mean? --Larry Sanger 21:51, 11 December 2007 (CST)

Hee, hee, hee. er...every culture has drummers, but not every culture has pipers? Best I could do off the top of my head!
"Perdrix", is one way to translate "partridge". In poetry, "and a paar-tri-idge, eu-ner-pair-dree" (I can't do that phonetic thing---obviously :)
Should this be, like, a subpage in the Christmas cluster?
Aleta Curry 22:26, 11 December 2007 (CST)
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