"pawnbroker said, had not the chanter been worn nearly through by the finger marks he could afford to have given much more than the ten shillings he allowed her."" Peter Kelly (piper) Peter Kelly (1837 – 1 April 1910) was an Irish piper. Kelly was born in the town of Galway but blinded in infancy. When old enough, his parents saw to it that he was taught the pipes by Martin O'Reilly as a means of ensuing his welfare. When aged about thirty he moved to Glasgow with fiddler John Crockwell, where he married and had nine children. He was"
"Peter Piper ""Peter Piper"" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1945. Common modern versions include: The earliest version of this tongue twister was published in ""Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation"" by John Harris (1756–1846) in London in 1813, which includes a one name tongue-twister for each letter of the alphabet in the same style. However, the rhyme was apparently known at least a generation earlier. Some authors have identified the subject of the rhyme as Pierre Poivre, an eighteenthcentury French horticulturalist and government administrator"
"of Mauritius, who once investigated the Seychelles' potential for spice cultivation. Numerous allusions have been made to Peter Piper in popular culture. Peter Piper ""Peter Piper"" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1945. Common modern versions include: The earliest version of this tongue twister was published in ""Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation"" by John Harris (1756–1846) in London in 1813, which includes a one name tongue-twister for each letter of the alphabet in the same style. However, the rhyme was apparently known at least"
"form ""Say this phrase three (or five, or ten, ""etc."") times as fast as you can!""). Some examples include: A Proper Copper Coffee Pot. The sixth sitting sheet-slitter slit six sheets. Irish Wristwatch, Swiss Wristwatch. Pad kid poured curd pulled cold. Peggy Badcock. In 2013, a psychologist at an Acoustical Society of America conference claimed that “Pad kid poured curd pulled cod"" is the trickiest twister to date. Shibboleths, that is, phrases in a language that are difficult for someone who is not a native speaker of that language to say might be regarded as a type of tongue-twist. An"
"P P (named ""pee"" ) is the 16th letter of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. In English orthography and most other European languages, represents the sound . A common digraph in English is , which represents the sound , and can be used to transliterate ""phi"" in loanwords from Greek. In German, the digraph is common, representing a labial affricate . Most English words beginning with are of foreign origin, primarily French, Latin, Greek, and Slavic; these languages preserve Proto-Indo-European initial *p. Native English cognates of such words often start with , since English is"
"he used the initial because he disliked his name. On a copy of ""Little Fuzzy"" given to Charles O. Piper, Beam's cousin and executor, he wrote ""To Charles from Henry."" Piper was largely self-educated; he obtained his knowledge of science and history ""without subjecting myself to the ridiculous misery of four years in the uncomfortable confines of a raccoon coat."" He went to work at age 18 as a laborer at the Pennsylvania Railroad's Altoona yards in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He also worked as a night watchman for the railroad. Piper published his first short story, ""Time and Time Again"", in"
"difficult to ascertain this rhyme's exact original. A common modern version is: There are many common variations, such as replacing tiger with ""piggy"", ""tinker"", ""tigger"", a two-syllable name, etc.; and changing the verb in the third line to ""screams"", ""wiggles"", ""squeals"" or another verb. Sometimes additional lines are added at the end of the rhyme to draw out or manipulate the selection process or make it seem less predetermined, such as: Or alternatively: Occasionally the line copies 'Ip dip': The first record of a similar rhyme, called the ""Hana, man,"" is from about 1815, when children in New York City"
"The Pi Man ""The Pi Man"" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. It was first published in ""Fantasy and Science Fiction"", in 1959. Bester subsequently revised it extensively for his 1976 collection ""Star Light, Star Bright"", changing the characters' names, ""develop(ing) minor scenes"", modifying the typographical ""word pictures"", and deleting several ""stale references to beatnik culture"". Peter Marko's superhuman abilities of pattern recognition have allowed him to make a fortune in forex arbitrage; however, they also compel him to balance out the behaviors of the rest of the world by constantly performing seemingly-random acts of"
"Pip the Troll Pip the Troll is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Pip the Troll was introduced by Jim Starlin in ""Strange Tales"" vol 2 #179 (Feb 1975) to be a comic foil to the story's main protagonist, Adam Warlock. Pip returned in ""Strange Tales"" vol 2 #180-181 (Mar-Apr 1975) and ""Warlock"" vol 1 #9-12 (Oct 1975-Jan 1976) before his death in ""Avengers Annual"" #7 (Mar 1977). Starlin revived the character years later in ""Silver Surfer"" vol 3 #46 (Dec 1990). Pip played a role in the 1991 ""Infinity Gauntlet"" crossover before joining"
"paid all the money in the town's treasury, (fifty-thousand guilders) he offers to rid the town of the rats. An unusual element is introduced into the story here: whenever the Piper plays a happy tune for the children, only Truson and the children can hear it. When he plays ""In the Hall of the Mountain King"" and leads the rats to their doom in the river, the children quickly fall asleep and only the material-minded adults such as the Mayor, but not Truson, can hear the music. The Piper rids the town of the rats, but rather than simply paying"
"Piper (played by Ford Sterling) as a four-flusher meaning he is a braggart or a person who makes false or pretentious claims. In the film, his ""four-flushing"" has resulted in the loss of money needed to pay for the mortgage on the Fisher family home. In the 1941 movie, ""Hellzapoppin'"" the character Pepi (played by Mischa Auer) is called a four flusher. In the 1945 film ""Detour"" Tom Neal's character calls another character a four-flusher. (The other character is named Charlie Haskell Jr., echoing the name of the Oklahoma governor mentioned above.) In the 1948 film ""Homecoming"" starring Clark Gable,"
"the Egg"" and ""The Sneetches and Other Stories"". In the first tongue twister, Hooey the parrot reads the book of ""Oh Say Can You Say"" and states that the words in it are all phooey, and when one says them, one's lips will make slips and backflips, and one's tongues may end up in St. Louie. In the second one, a diner owner Finney sells 3 platters of fish which are fresh, fresher, and freshest to which he considers French-fried. In the third one, a skeletal Apatosaurus Dinn at a museum loses his left front shinbones, but with his handy"
"(As the scene came from the pilot, it was created with traditional paper cutout stop motion animation.) In the scene, Stan asks Pip about his peculiar name, but Cartman interrupts Pip during his answer. Pip's reply – ""my father's family name being Pirrip and my Christian name Phillip, my infant tongue--"" – is identical to the opening line of the novel ""Great Expectations"", which is narrated by its protagonist, Pip. Production for the episode started after the first run of the series' fourth season, which consisted of four episodes. At the beginning of the second run of six episodes (which"
"to read which I tried"". The fact that pied-piping varies so much across languages is a major challenge facing theories of syntax. Pied-piping In linguistics, pied-piping is a phenomenon of syntax whereby a given focused expression takes an entire encompassing phrase with it when it is ""moved"". The term itself is due to John Robert Ross; it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute. Pied-piping is an aspect of discontinuities in syntax, having to do with the constituents that can and cannot be discontinuous."
"Transylvania, or that he made them walk into the Weser as he did with the rats, and they all drowned. Some versions state that the Piper returned the children after payment, or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold. The earliest mention of the story seems to have been on a stained-glass window placed in the Church of Hamelin c. 1300. The window was described in several accounts between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was destroyed in 1660. Based on the surviving descriptions, a modern reconstruction of the window has"
"using the Falcon alias at the time. She immobilized both of them and made off with Vulture's loot. A variation on the Trapster appears in """" as one of the members of the 1602 Frightful Four: ""The Four who are Frightful"". He is an expert huntsman, hence his name. Peter appears as a bird called Paste Pot Peep in ""Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham"" #16. Trapster The Trapster (Peter Petruski) is fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is one of the first supervillains who became active during the ""Silver Age"" of Marvel Comics."
"the barriers and islands to extraction (see below). When the wh-word appears underneath a blocking category or in an island, the entire encompassing phrase must be fronted. Pied-piping was first identified by John R. Ross in his 1967 dissertation. There are cases where pied-piping can be optional. In English, this occurs most notably with prepositional phrases (PPs). The wh-word is the object of a preposition. A formal register will pied-pipe the preposition, whereas more colloquial English prefers to leave the preposition in situ, e.g. The c-examples are cases of preposition stranding, which is possible in English, but not allowed in"
"earlier mention of tipstaff is in 1555 when the Rev'd Dr Rowland Taylor was burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary I for his religious views that were contrary to those of the Lord Chancellor Gardiner. In Foxe's Book of Martyrs it states that Dr Taylor would have spoken to the people but as soon as he opened his mouth the yeoman of the guard thrust a tipstaff into his mouth, and would in no wise permit him to speak. This is also quoted in the book ""Five English Reformers"" by J. C. Ryle. The name originates"
"piercer in the U.S., split her tongue in 1996 herself. Not having any reference of this being done before, she came up with the tie-off or fishing line method. In 1997 she was featured on the cover of Fakir Musafar's Body Play Magazine. Dustin's documented success with this process inspired coworker Natalie Lowry to follow suit in 2001. Erik Sprague, aka ""The Lizardman"" had his tongue split on July 18, 1997, by oral surgeon Dr. Lawrence Busino, using an argon laser. A new deeper split was done on October 3, 1997. This was the third modern tongue bifurcation and the"
"originally published in 1921), but that the poem did not exist at the time the book was published. Instead, the poem was written many years later about another war: World War II. Although the general tenor of the actual published poem is similar to what is described in ""Rilla of Ingleside"", this version of '""The Piper"" differs in some respects from Montgomery's earlier description of Walter's poem. Notably, Montgomery's version has two stanzas, not three, and makes no mention of ""keeping faith"" as was said to be a central portion of Walter's poem. Montgomery included the poem as a sort"
"Pied-piping In linguistics, pied-piping is a phenomenon of syntax whereby a given focused expression takes an entire encompassing phrase with it when it is ""moved"". The term itself is due to John Robert Ross; it is a reference to the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the figure of fairy tales who lured rats (and children) by playing his flute. Pied-piping is an aspect of discontinuities in syntax, having to do with the constituents that can and cannot be discontinuous. While pied-piping is most visible in cases of wh-fronting of information questions and relative clauses, it is not limited to wh-fronting, but"
"Earldom, 1296-7, mention ""Henri the pipere of Trigg"": his wife Joan was paying a fine of 2s 6d. The assize record of the 1302 Cornwall Eyre mentions ""Osbmus Le Pibith"" and ""Richare/us Le Pybyth"", both of Mousehole. A 1344 account tells of a disturbance at a Cornwall stannary in Redruth involving a man with the surname ""Pipere"". Pipers receive many mentions in Cornish-language plays from the 15th to early 17th centuries. These are: For example, Origo Mundi, Resurrexio Domini, Gwreans an Bys, and both halves of Beunans Meriasek (the latter play intended to be performed in two parts on two"
"Alliteration In literature, alliteration is the conspicuous repetition of identical initial consonant sounds in successive or closely associated syllables within a group of words, even those spelled differently. As a method of linking words for effect, alliteration is also called head rhyme or initial rhyme. For example, """"h""umble ""h""ouse,"" or """"p""otential ""p""ower ""p""lay."" A familiar example is """"P""eter ""P""iper ""p""icked a ""p""eck of ""p""ickled ""p""eppers"". ""Alliteration"" is from the Latin word ""littera"", meaning ""letter of the alphabet""; it was first coined in a Latin dialogue by the Italian humanist Giovanni Pontano in the 15th century. Some literary experts accept as"
"he communicated through Piper. William James strongly rejected this claim. The Reverend Mr. Sutton and his wife who had lost their daughter Katherine (Kakie) six weeks previously, attended a séance sitting with Piper on December 8, 1893. Piper described their daughter, gave her nickname and told how she had died of a throat infection, she also gave the nicknames of the little girl's brother and sister. John G. Taylor suggested that the information Piper gave could naturally be explained if she had read an obituary notice in the local newspaper. Taylor also suggested Piper may have picked up clues from"
"Pied Piper of Lovers Pied Piper of Lovers, published in 1935, is Lawrence Durrell's first novel. It is followed by ""Panic Spring"", which partly continues the actions of its characters. The novel is in large part autobiographical and focuses on the protagonist's childhood in India and maturation in London. Walsh Clifton is an Anglo-Indian born of an inter-racial couple. His mother dies during childbirth in the opening scenes of the novel. He is raised in India by his father, John Clifton, and his aunt Brenda. Walsh is torn between his strong ties to India and his position as a colonial."
"inspire men to volunteer for the war, a piper had marched through the center of Leaskdale daily for all four years of World War I, playing Highland war tunes, which had given Montgomery the inspiration of the figure of ""the Piper"". ""The piper"" first appears in the Anne books in ""Rainbow Valley"" (1919), inspiring the men of Avonlea with his courage. In ""Rilla of Ingleside"" (1921), ""the Piper"" returns as a more sinister figure, inspiring Anne's son Walter to enlist in the Canadian expeditionary force, while taking on the appearance and personality of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The Reverend"
"into a joke, for example asking: ""Granville, how do you spell P-p-p-pepper? Is it 6 Ps or 7?"" Granville occasionally mocks his uncle's speech pattern (such as calling the ""weather fore-fore-forecast"" the ""weather twelvecast"", and referring to the ""B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-BC"" as morse code), although never in a malicious or hurtful manner. Arkwright was shocked on one occasion to find that he also appears to stutter even when thinking to himself. By the time of the 2013 episode ""Still Open All Hours"" and the sequel series of the same name, Arkwright has long since died (Barker died in 2005), but almost all"
"come out of hiding by pretending to bring the rats back. Finally Porky gets the reward money and insults the cat back before he leaves playing his clarinet and walks into the distance. Paying the Piper Paying the Piper is a 1949 ""Looney Tunes"" cartoon starring Porky Pig. It is a parody of the fairy tale The Pied Piper and it involves Porky trying to stop a cat that disguises himself as the last rat to bring the rats back for the local cats, and later, to get the reward money back from the cat, by playing a clarinet. It"
"decided it was her Christian duty to make her marriage work. After the First World War, a recurring character in Montgomery's journal that was to obsess her for the rest of her life was ""the Piper"", who at first appeared as a heroic Highlander piper from Scotland, leading men into battle while playing traditional Highland tunes, but who turned out to be the Pied Piper of Hamelin, a trickster taking children away from their parents forever. The figure of ""the Piper"" reflected Montgomery's own disillusionment with World War One and her guilt at her ardent support for the war. To"
"the event, but because the Bible tells him what happened to him. He married Noël Henry in December 1968, and together they have four sons, a daughter, and 12 grandchildren. Piper attended Wheaton College (1964–68) majoring in literature and minoring in philosophy. Studying romantic literature with Clyde Kilby stimulated his poetic side, and today he regularly composes poetry to celebrate special family occasions as well as annually composing story-poems (based on the life of biblical characters) for his congregation during the four weeks of Advent. In college, he was originally on the pre-medicine track, only to decide to go into"
"with the seventy-sixth anniversary of Montgomery's death on 24 April 1942; it was then published on July 3, 2018. Part One ""The Piper"" Some Fools and a Saint Twilight at Ingleside An Afternoon with Mr. Jenkins The Second Evening Retribution The Third Evening The Twins Pretend The Fourth Evening Fancy's Fool The Fifth Evening A Dream Comes True The Sixth Evening Penelope Struts Her Theories The Seventh Evening The Reconciliation The Cheated Child Fool's Errand The Pot and the Kettle Part 2 Another Ingleside Twilight Brother Beware The Second Evening Here Comes the Bride The Third Evening A Commonplace Woman"
"Mr. Carr’s belief that the story was the original story, but that it was rejected by editor John W. Campbell for its apparent use of parallel evolution as a part of the plot. He further contended that it was Mr. Campbell who recommended that the story be rewritten to make it a part of the Paratime storyline. “When in the Course” made its first appearance in the 1981 short story collection ""Federation"". Unlike most Piper stories, the copyright for “When in the Course” has not lapsed. The story begins in the castle of Tarr-Hostigos, where Prince Ptosphes and his council"
"J. Alfred Prufrock"", ""Rubaiyat"", ""Hamlet"", and Carl Sandburg's ""Grass"") in story, structure, and rhyme. When the number of letters in each word is written out they form the first 3835 digits of pi. While in this example each word is the same number of letters as the next digit of pi (and ten letters for the digit 0), some sections use words of more than ten letters as a one followed by another digit: where 11 represents two consecutive digit ""1""s in pi. Taking ""A"" as 1, ""B"" as 2, ""C"" as 3, etc., the name of the piece itself"