Sticks & Stones

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"Sticks and Stones" is an English-language children's rhyme. The rhyme is used as a defense against name-calling and verbal bullying, intended to increase resiliency, avoid physical retaliation, and/or to remain calm and indifferent. The full rhyme is usually a variant of:

Sticks and stones may break my bones
But words shall never hurt me.

The first three words of the rhyme are an example of an irreversible binomial.
Alexander William Kinglake in his Eothen (written 1830, published in London, John... plus