Piggy with a house

[owlfish]

For my own edification in the ways of foreign childrens' songs, I went to the local library baby and toddler singalong today. Fifty percent of the songs were unfamiliar to me. For another quarter, I knew the words, but not the tunes to which they were being sung.

And then there were moments like this, when what is probably - I hypothesize - a usual British Englishism I've been hearing for years stood out like a metaphorical sore thumb in what was an otherwise familiar sequence.

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Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

"Stayed at home" - it doesn't scan right otherwise.

[sioneva.livejournal.com]

Depends on where you're from. Scans wrong to me if it's "stayed at home"!