Talk:The Twelve Days of Christmas (carol)

I would like to point out that the pipers outrank the lords, ladies, dancers, maids, and poultry, as is apt. But I have no idea why the drummers outrank the pipers. And of course the common version omits: Thirteen fiddlers a-fiddling.

So what does "perdrix" mean? --Larry Sanger 21:51, 11 December 2007 (CST)

Hee, hee, hee. er...every culture has drummers, but not every culture has pipers? Best I could do off the top of my head!

"Perdrix", is one way to translate "partridge". In poetry, "and a paar-tri-idge, eu-ner-pair-dree" (I can't do that phonetic thing---obviously :)

Should this be, like, a subpage in the Christmas cluster?

Aleta Curry 22:26, 11 December 2007 (CST)