Rarely do classic nursery rhymes use words that most readers don’t know and have never heard before. But “Little Miss Muffet” is one of those rare exceptions. The short verse, about a young girl and a ...

When it comes to classic nursery rhymes, "Little Miss Muffet" is right up there with "Humpty Dumpty" and "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." Here are answers to all your burning questions about the history of ...

In a move branded "woke" by critics, a raft of classic nursery rhymes - dating back hundreds of years - have been rewritten, with Baa Baa Black Sheep changed from the traditional 'Baa baa black sheep, ...

Nursery rhymes may not make sense to the 21st-century child. What’s the tuffet that Little Miss Muffet sat on when the first copies of the rhyme appeared in England in 1553? A chair, a stool, a plant, ...

CHICAGO, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Whey, a high-protein dairy product best known from the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme, has become a popular addition to athletic diets and will soon be trading at the ...

Little Miss Muffet’s first name was probably Patience. The heroine of the nursery rhyme is assumed to be Patience Moffat, the daughter of Thomas Moffat (d. 1604), an Elizabethan physician and author.