Okay. Now I'm curious.

[deird_lj]

(This is all beer_good_foamy's fault.)


[Poll #1526051]


Is it a regional thing? A generational thing? Why all the confusion?

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[lavastar.livejournal.com]

.........but incy wincy is just WRONG.

Also, it's clearly some sort of small spider - we've got just as much of those as Australia. If it were the huge big spider, sure, but we're on even ground here. :P

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

Also secure in my RIGHTNESS.

Origin of Incy Wincy Spider http://www.famousquotes.me.uk/nursery_rhymes/incy_wincy_spider.htm

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

It's itsy bitsy!!!!

*stands firm*

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

As in Itsy Bitsy, Teeney Weeney Yellow Pokerdot Bikini? Totally a 50's song. The rhyme predates that by centuries! :-)

[menomegirl.livejournal.com]

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini was released in 1960 and has nothing at all to do with Itsy Bitsy Spider.

Also, did you know that Itsy Bitsy Spider was released as a song once?

[http://users.livejournal.com/woman_of_/]

There are a few versions of Incy Wincy Spider on the internet, here is one http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-songs-incy-wincy.htm

It is said in a sing-song voice, so often used as as song.

The only time I heard the expression Itsy Bitsy was in that song, not used in the UK.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Hmmph, like a website proves you're right??? Noooo.

[roccondilrinon.livejournal.com]

Australia isn't known for particularly big spiders — just particularly evil ones. The big ones, the huntsmans and daddy-long-legs-es, don't bite, they just (huntsmans at least) scare you. The funnel-webs, white-tails and redbacks are the dangerous ones, and they're all INCY-WINCY.

And you thought I wasn't going to be relevant.

[jl-in-the-lane.livejournal.com]

Huntsmen FREAK ME OUT.

As for funnelwebs, white-tails and redbacks - I refuse to admit they exist. They're too scary to contemplate.

DaddyLongLegs are interesting, though, because when I was staying in Britain, they also had DLLs, but they weren't spiders, they were gigantic flying mosquitoes. Kinda. DREADFUL things.

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

From what I recall of that Mythbusters episodes, DDLs can. It just doesn't hurt much. (And Adam had several crawling over his arm and it took a while for just one of them to do it, so maybe they just don't do it often.)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

...I have no logical argument concerning this. Just.

ITSY BITSY.