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"Chicken Lickens"? I'm going to assume the author means Chicken Littles. Or is that a British thing?
by elchief 11y ago
"Chicken Lickens"? I'm going to assume the author means Chicken Littles. Or is that a British thing?
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- markdown 11y ago> Or is that a British thing? An everywhere outside USA thing.
- elchief 11y agoIt's Chicken Little in Canada too. I've never heard it being called Chicken Licken, even by my Scottish mother.
- markdown 11y agoPerhaps a lot of your story books were imported from south of the border, or published by subsidiaries of US companies.
- Terr_ 11y agoThat implies popularity, but I've never heard of any of the alliterative characters mentioned in Wikipedia: > In 1849, a "very different" English version was published under the title "The Story of Chicken-Licken" by Joseph Orchard Halliwell.[15] In this Chicken-licken was startled when "an acorn fell on her bald pate" and encounters the characters Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander, Turkey-lurkey and Fox-lox.
- selimthegrim 11y agoI (American) have heard of Chicken Licken and all the other alliterative ones, but I blame my mother having grown up in a former British colony.
- markdown 11y ago> In the United States, the most common name for the story is "Chicken Little", as attested by illustrated books for children dating from the early 19th century. In Britain and its other former colonies, it is best known as "Henny Penny" and "Chicken Licken", titles by which it also went in the United States.[note 1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny
- jat850 11y agoChicken Licken is another name used for Chicken Little in some variants of the tale.