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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[ruuger]

It's hämä-hämähäkki! :D

(when your word for spider is 'hämähäkki', you don't need itsy-bitsys or incy-wincys to fill out the line)

Also, is Finnish the only language where the rhyme has more than one verse? Because we have four - two about the spider, one about an ant and one about a cricket.

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

Uh, we kinda sing one about the spider climbing up a tree at playgroup, but I'd never ever heard it before and I don't know half the words:

Incy Wincy spider was climbing up a tree
Down came the snow and made poor Incy freeze
Out came the sun and melted all the snow
So Incy Wincy spider had another go.

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

No, actually it turns out I do know the words.

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

*jawdrop*

The very idea that there could be another verse actually just shattered my brain.