See http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/28/hogamous/ . Jim Propp On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net> wrote:
Btw, I was certain that this is a takeoff on a rhyme *written by Aldous Huxley*, having long ago read some non-fiction by or about him that stated he made this up as a schoolboy. So googled to confirm this.
But the Internet mainly thinks the origin of this is undetermined (just google on hogamous, higamous). After probably close to 10 minutes of googling I found *one* hit where someone said it was by Aldous Huxley — the others didn't even mention him as a candidate.
And that hit was just a comment by someone in a discussion group, no citation.
Do you, Fred, or anyone else, know the origin of
Hogamous, higamous, Man is polygamous. Higamous, hogamous, Woman monogamous.
?
—Dan
On Apr 1, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hogamous, higamous, Plouffe is polygammous. Higamous, hogamous, Gosper monogammous.
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