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Its a funny ryhme…and my grandmother said it “maybe” Native American…but….we will see….
“Harley,marley,tipsy tee…haley maley dominee…hotchie potchie, dominochee…hypintosky”.
??? Any ideas?????
or just a made up little ryme? I thought maybe its to remember family names???
The phonetics don’t jive but I don’t know everything there is to know.
Phonetics of surnames? I’ll keep it in mind.
Bill
The phrase “hotchie, potchie, Dominochee” seems pretty clearly a further corruption of “hocus pocus, dominocus,” of which we mostly use only the first two words (originally, to avoid sacrilege). This is what a stage magician says before pulling the rabbit out of the hat, or whatever. And it is at best an irreverent reference — to the Latin words spoken by the priest to signify the miracle of transsubstantiation, when the communion wafer becomes the flesh of Christ: “Hoc est corpus Domini” (this is the body of the Lord).
Indian, it’s not. But I don’t know about the rest of the rhyme. Could be to remember family names, as you suggest.
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