Betty Botter Bought Some Butter

DESCRIPTION: "Betty Botter bought some butter," only to find that it is bitter/bad. So if she puts it in her batter, it will make the batter bitter/bad. So she takes action to get some better butter
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1934 (Notes & Queries, according to Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes)
KEYWORDS: food wordplay | butter tongue-twister
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REFERENCES (3 citations):
Opie/Opie-OxfordDictionaryOfNurseryRhymes 41, "Betty Botter bought some butter" (1 text)
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #753, p. 283, "(Betty Botter bought some butter)"
Delamar-ChildrensCountingOutRhymes, p. 148, "Betty Botter Bought Some Butter" (1 text)
NOTES [36 words]: Jean Redpath used to use this as a demonstration of glottal stops, and her text does not entirely match most of the printed versions, so it probably went through oral tradition. I don't know if it was ever sung. - RBW
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