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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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A was an apple-pie
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The most popular of the alphabet nursery rhymes, recorded as far back as the 17C. It continues with 'B baked it, C cut it, D dealt it', and so on down to Z. It is almost certainly the origin of the phrase 'apple-pie order', meaning perfect order.
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