Trivia: “Peter Piper picked a ___ of pickled peppers”
Pail
Pound
Patch
Peck
The correct answer is Peck
So why is this answer correct? : This classic twister is rumored to be about French horticulturalist Pierre Poivre — “poivre” is French for “pepper.” The rhyme was first printed in “Peter Piper’s Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation” in 1813. The full rhyme goes: “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers / A peck of pickled peppers, Peter Piper picked / If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers / Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?”