Grammar Grater^®

"In many towns, the waits played the role of 'town criers,' singing the hours of the day and reporting local happenings. Christmastime kept them especially busy. As they strolled through the snowy streets, they told the story of the Nativity in song... Townspeople would show their appreciation by giving the singers money or food. After imparting their good wishes, the waits singers felt entitled to ask for some 'figgy pudding!'"

"Frosty, from the tune, resembles a snowman in a children's book that preceded the famous song by five years. Snowy the Traveling Snowman, written by Ruth Burman in 1944, was about a magical, singing snowman who also danced and played with children and, like Frosty, had coal for eyes, wore a high silk black hat, and smoked a pipe. A passage from this rare Snowy book declared, 'The snowman came bumpity-bump down the hill.' The last line from Frosty the song concludes 'Thumpety thump-thump, over the hills of snow.' Without question, 'Thumpity thump thump' sounds like what someone—someone who really likes bumpity bump-bump but can't use that exact phrase—would use.