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J. L. Bell said...

That "DINTY" appears to be just a fluke of the alphabet when laid out in a square a particular way. I suspect the song's "dinty" was a form of "dainty," with the meaning closest to "scrupulous" in Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. But the main attraction of "dinty" appears to be that it was a near-rhyme for "plenty."

I don't have a suspect for the author of this poem, and it may well have been a group effort.

Jul 3, 2014, 2:46:31 AM

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