ID: 691
Date: 1950s
Title: Dunce, dunce
Gender: Male and Female 
Classification: Taunt 
Rhyme: 

Dunce, dunce, double D,
Can't say your ABC,
Can't make a cup of tea,
Dunce, dunce, double D.

(NZ ex UK, 1950s)

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Background Info: Discussion in Opie, 1967:180, regarding the use of the term 'dunce'. A dunce "may be sane, good at games, and seldom act the fool, but he lacks scholastic abilities, he is dense, slow on the uptake, he has got a thick head."

Dunce, dunce, double D,
Doesn't know his ABC.

(UK, 1898)

Dunce , dunce, double D,
Cannot learn his ABC,
Put a cap on, then you'll see,
What a silly boy is he.

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Keywords: school 
Location: NZ (ex UK) 
Group size: 1 
Incidence: 1