XPost: alt.usage.english, alt.language.latin   
   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   charles wrote:   
   >     HenHanna  wrote:   
      
   >> Ding, ding, dong   
   >> Ding, ding, dong   
   >   
   >> ------------ ive always remembered is as  Ding, Dong, Ding   
   >>                                  or  maybe Ding  Ding  Dong   
   >   
   >> but recently i've seen  Ding-dang-dong, ding-dang-dong.   
   >   
   >>                         What is most common ???   
   >   
   >> Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,. Brother John, brother John. Morning   
   >> bells are ringing,. Morning bells are ringing,. Ding-dang-dong,   
   >> ding-dang-dong.   
   >   
   > when I learned the rhyme (1940s?), it was in (the original) French). It had   
   > ding-dang-dong.   
      
   Ditto, tho much later than the 40s  ;)   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A8re_Jacques   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frere_Jacques   
      
    From the 1700s give or take. The representation of   
   bell sounds has a few variations. No idea what the   
   earliest might be.   
      
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