As the ducks grow older though it turns out that the ugly grey duck is actually a beautiful swan and turns out to be even more amazing than the other boring old ducks. The story goes that all the other ducklings made fun of the ugly one because he ways GREY not the pretty yellow color they all were. The game duck duck GREY DUCK is derived from the story of the ugly duckling. The Swedish community was fairly isolated until the turn of the 20th century but has been economically quite successful since.ĭuck duck grey duck did not diverge from duck duck goose.ĭuck Duck Goose came from Duck Duck Grey Duck, but people forgot what the game was actually about and so they decided goose sounded better and was less repetitive. Nevertheless, Minnesota has the largest concentration of ethnic Swedes in the U.S.- its most common surnames to this day are Scandinavian, and I could certainly envision a scenario where a regional or dialectic name of the game was transplanted by immigrants to became the prevalent usage in the new country even as it faded in the old. Now, this name is vanishingly rare on the Internet compared to Anka Anka Gås (4 vs 27,000 results). An alternative, Anka, Anka, Gråttanka, is attested to on Reddit. Digging around a bit more, I did find a site which referred to the Swedish game by a different name: Anka Anka Grå Anka, which happens to translate to duck duck grey duck. "the plump sack"), 수건 돌리기 (loosely, "towel whirl")- only the Swedish name is similar to the English: Anka Anka Gås (i.e.
I noticed, however, that of all the variants played in different countries- le facteur ("the postman"), plumpsack (lit.
So the best answer may well be that origin of the Minnesota name is lost to history, and any answers will be speculative. Garrison Keillor doesn't know, and online sources are all rather contradictory (the game is variously said to have originated in Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the U.S.) and dubious.
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