Poll: Hokey Cokey or Hokey Pokey?

[TheRhythmessCarolMan]

Well?...

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/titbit

Oh so it IS bit of tit then

Holy Moly!
Or is it Holy Moses?

I think the yanks have got it right. Tidbit sounds much cuter than titbit.

I think the first recording was tidbit in England, in 1730 (or something like that) and then titbit was recorded in 1745. I can’t remember the exact figures.

It’s perhaps like our use of ‘s’ when American English would use a ‘z’. We tend to think of it as wrong, but actually the original English would have used the Z too, and for some reason we shifted to using an S.

Cokey

Tidbit sounds weird. Titbit is correct. Apparently they literally did change that because it sounded rude, but it refers to the amount a small bird would eat IIRC - nothing to do with boobs.

I disagree. According to what I've read, no one can say for sure which came first.

Oooh. Eeee.
Oooo aaaarr aaarr!

The Snowmen version was played on the radio (pick of the pops, radio 2 today).
That’s the tune I would sing it to & I think they’re singing ooh, Hokey Cokey cokey.
I can’t work out how oooh the Hokey Cokey fits at all. Is there another tune?

OTOH, I did a lyric search, and that says “ I like cokey “ x 3.
Go figure.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQ9K7-J_PM

And for good measure you can download the shoogley woogley & many other lovely songs here - scottishbooktrust.com/bookbug/resources/songs-rhymes/bookbug-toddler-cd

It's Hokey Pokey in Australia.

The ice cream is also Hokey Pokey.

So it's a song about ice cream. Cool!