I am not compiling these examples for recreational purposes as I consider 'the n word' to be very offensive regardless of the context. The content is provided for folkloric and socio-cultural information. For folkloric purposes, I'm also interested in documenting examples of 'Eenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes from the United Kingdom which include 'the 'n' word' and which also include recollections about the chanter's reaction to and/or other people's reactiions to that word in those examples.

I'm particularly interested in documented some examples of 'Eeenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes from the United States that include demographic information (particularly when and where these rhymes were/are chanted). This post doesn't include speculation about the origin/s of 'Eenie Meenie Miney Mo' rhymes. This pancocojams post presents some general information about 'Eenie Meenie Miney Mo' counting out/choosing it rhymes and presents a compilation of some versions of these rhymes from the United Kingdom. if there are 16 items/people to choose among, the last option is chosen and the remainder will be 0.This post is part of an ongoing pancocojams series on the 'eenie meenie miney mo' counting out/choosing it rhymes and on eenie meenie epsileenie' jump rope/hand clap rhymes (or similar titles). In the case that the remainder is zero, you choose the last item.

For example, if you have 15 choices for the 16 element phrase, you’ll count through all 15 and then go back to the first option and end on it (i.e. The math is such that you take the modulo (which is equivalent to a remainder in long division). There are multiple variants of the rhyme, but the primary one mentioned above has 16 counting elements. Hover over the graph to see which option is chosen. For each set with different numbers of options, you will get a different individual from that set chosen so I thought I’d visualize who gets selected.Ĭlick “Start” to see which option gets selected when there are different numbers of options. Since there were only two of them, it got me thinking, if you knew which one it would fall on at the end, you could decide who to start counting with to ensure that you select who you want. “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eeny, meeny, miny moe.” I was watching my kids try to pick who got go first by doing the kids rhyme,

Who is selected when kids do Eeny Meeny Miney Moe?

Eenie meenie miney mo kids