• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      edit-2
      11 months ago

      78 birds in total. They’re all birds. No humans or gold.

      First day of Christmas: 1 partridge in a pear tree

      Second day of Christmas: 2 turtledoves

      Third day of Christmas: 3 French hens

      Fourth day of Christmas: 4 calling birds (blackbirds)

      Fifth day of Christmas: 5 golden rings (pheasants)

      Sixth day of Christmas: 6 geese a-laying

      Seventh day of Christmas: 7 swans a-swimming

      Eighth day of Christmas: 8 maids a-milking (magpies or cattle egret)

      Ninth day of Christmas: 9 ladies dancing (lapwings)

      Tenth day of Christmas: 10 lords a-leaping (cuckoos)

      Eleventh day of Christmas: 11 pipers piping (sandpipers)

      Twelfth day of Christmas: 12 drummers drumming (ruffled grouse)

      • xantoxis@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        14
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        11 months ago

        This is an impressive post. You have:

        1. Misunderstood the plain language of the song, in which each thing is given on every successive day following its first appearance (not simply one time each),
        2. Presented a niche theory about the meanings of the lyrics as if it is fact, and
        3. Missed the joke.

        Other lemmy users: bring your A game, the standard has been set

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        11 months ago

        I’m still trying to hold up that the 12 days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day, Dec 25. And finishes on the Twelfth Night (like the Shakespeare play).