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Nursery rhymes are deceptively simple but they teach us all about rhyme, word order, and vocabulary whether real or nonsense!
Source: Pop Goes the Weasel: the magical language of nursery rhymes – Collins Dictionary Language Blog
Hi Jeremy, Is it true that the weasel was a term for a tailor’s flat iron and that popping was slang for pawning? I remember reading somewhere that it was originally a music-hall song about drinking all your money and having to pawn things but that could be one of those etymological myths!