...belé a) children and chicken must always be picking b) children have wide ears and long tongues c) children pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter them again as God shall please d) little pitchers have big ears e) little pitchers have long ears f ) what children hear at home soon...

...parent educator and author. Love and Anger: The Parental Dilemma, ch. 3 (1991). Family Communication 1 Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please. OLD ENGLISH PROVERB. 2 There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly...

...Studdert-Kennedy and Mody (1995) noted that they would not be regarded as dyslexic. 4 Understanding word meaning Children pick up words as pigeons peas, And utter them again as God shall please John Ray, English Proverbs (1670) OVERVIEW 1. Vocabulary learning involves identifying recurring phonological...

...did provide testimony for the courts. 'What children hear at home soon flies abroad' ran one proverb; 'children pick up words as pigeons peas and utter them again as God shall please', warned another.30 Children were asked whether they understood the nature of an oath, and their statements...

...of notes; / The clear vowels rise like balloons. Sylvia Plath, 1965, 'Morning Song', in Ariel 9:27 Children pick up words as pigeons peas / And utter them again as God shall please. Proverbial 9:28 [of children] Speak when you are spoken to; come when you are called. Proverbial 9:29...

...supposing that the young had suddenly become creative. Children merely, as the old proverb has it, 'pick up words as pigeons peas, and utter them again as God shall please'. There was a shortage of cigarette cards for ' flirting' so they took to playing with milk-bottle tops...