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It is a tradition with variants in several cultures that I have observed. When a group of people want to pick one of them to do something, they chant a catchy ditty/phrase/mantra, all the while pointing at each person in the group at the pace of one person per word. The person who happens to be pointed at the very end of the phrase is the chosen one.
What's this small tradition called in English?
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Eeny-meeny-miney-moAlso see this thread
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Counting-out game
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Engine, engine number 9. Running down Chicago line. If the train should jump the track, do you want your money back? The person to whom you are pointing when you say "back" answers either "yes" or "no. You will then spell out the answer: "y-e-s spells yes and you are out" or "n-o spells no and you are out". We had many of these types of choosing games when I was a kid, I don't know that we ever had a name for the whole class of them though. They were an automatic event whenever you had to pick one kid out of a group for some task. They could either work by immediate selection, or process of elimination, i.e. last one not chosen was "it."
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Yes, now, almost after half a century, I recall distinctly the rhyme in Telugu. It goes like this: 'Atukulu butukul, daam, doom, dassa, pilli, pitta, koyaa, kotar.'. Thank you all for helping me to be nostalgic. What a lovely times! And such games/plays have just become extinct.
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Christopher Lasch
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