Sticks and stones (and bottles and cans)
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According to various sources the rhyme is reported to have originally appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, an American publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church with a mainly black audience, where it is presented as an “old adage” in this form:
“Sticks and stones will break my bones
But words will never harm me.”
The phrase also appeared in 1872, where it is presented as advice in…
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