Castle, gloves. You don’t play!
Go on!
Kivi—a kettle. How are you?
Stáni, buck.
The common version of the rhyme begins with—
“One—ery—two—ery, ickery an.”
But one-ery is an exact translation of ek-keri; ek, or yek, meaning one in gypsy. (Ek-orus, or yek-korus, means once). And it is remarkable that in—
“Hickory dickory dock,
The rat ran up the clock,
The clock struck one,