Talk:How now brown cow

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For elocution purposes

If someone were looking to practice the /aʊ/ diphthong, I added information about the "ou" spelling in English use of the Roman alphabet. The purpose was to make clear that there are other orthographies to practice the articulation of this sound. The image was added for the same reason of the phrase's original elocution-related origins. Sky2018 (talk) 20:42, 27 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

AfD

This article has been kept following this AFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:44, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

1906 song?

Google books indicates that the phrase "how no brown cow" appeared in the 1906 publication of "Musical compositions: Part 3, Part 3" published by the Library of COngress, Copyright Office in 1906 .. suggesting that it was in the title/lyrics of a song copyrighted in 1906 ... anyone have more details?

hossman (talk) 03:28, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WWE RAW

Recent WWE Raw episode when? No date affixed to that edit, so no way to know. Must fix that.

Anchorman

How is this really relevant? It was also used in the cartoon Courage the Cowardly Dog, should that also be added to this? 99.157.206.122 (talk) 09:49, 8 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nursery rhyme

The article ends by stating that "the original words came from a nursery rhyme from the 19th century". I will donate ten thousand pounds to the charity of my choice, and provide a receipt, if you can state with authority which nursery rhyme, and include the words, because i am a jerk face. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 15:51, 13 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

rvv, hoax - odd syntax, unverifiable source

I've reverted this edit as a lighthearted hoax, by a one-off editor. The quoted "poem translation" carries straightforward bits of early 21st century American English slang idiom and moreover, following a search I cannot find any trace whatsoever of the cited source. Gwen Gale (talk) 12:49, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

vocative comma?

Stood alone, "how now brown cow" is just a random string of words. "How now, brown cow?" feels way more sensible as a phrase. Electricmaster (talk) 03:40, 5 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]