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Sticks and Stones
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This familiar playground rhyme, meant to teach resilience against verbal abuse, has a common misremembering that changes the specific nature of the verbal slight.
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What People Remember
Most people remember the rhyme as 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.'
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What's Actually True
The traditional and original version of the proverb often uses 'but names will never hurt me,' focusing on insults rather than general 'words.'
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#quotes#proverb#rhyme#childhood#saying
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