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just heard it wrong... the fact remains that the saying is "old wives' tale" NOT "old wise tale". It's akin to some people hearing the saying "a dog eat...

problem I noticed was that the correct form of the title should be The Old Wives' Tale with the apostrophe indicating possession as per the sources referenced...

reference to a story like this, I consider it little more than an old wives' tale. I am a native of Zwolle, Louisiana and grew up there for 15 years...

it reads, "There is an old wives' tale that if you hold a face too long, or if the wind changes while making a face, it will stay fixed in that position...

page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 21:48, 3 July 2008 (UTC) I added an old wives' tale about myoga that I've heard many times (from my mother, father, grandparents)...

November 2008 (UTC) Found it! It's adapted from a poem by George Peele, in his play 'The Old Wives' Tale': JRSM (talk) 22:59, 11 November 2008 (UTC) >...

after Richmond, and there is no known evidence to back this up. I'm calling either vandalism, or an old-wives-tale.Ai1238 (talk) 16:52, 8 April 2009 (UTC)...

because of his spectacles and the, eating carrots is good for your eyesight, old wives tale? 2600:387:C:2E12:0:0:0:127 (talk) 01:24, 23 December 2021 (UTC)...

Yellow Breeches. I cant necessarily cite that, and it may be just an old wives tale, but interesting none-the-less! Sigtauiota (talk) 04:56, 9 April 2009...

By the way, there used to be an urban legend or old wives' tale that a child of two white people might turn out to be "coal black" if even one of the...

"old wives tale" here and I do not think it is appropriate to report every societal aberration in an encyclopedia. Perhaps if this has to be kept "old...

of this complication without just asserting that. Prove it not an old wives' tale. One might discuss "cracking" of the malignant or inflammatory peel...

MythBusters perform experiments to verify or debunk urban legends, old wives' tales, and the like. This is a list of the various myths tested on the show...

The final paragraph in this part of the chapter runs - "The real murderer was having his dinner in the commercial room up at "The Tiger", opposite the...

question he was the first notable Marshall Field Please. Propagating an old wives tale about playing golf on New Year's Eve causing his death is just sad....

factual account to reiterate a statement nothing more grounded than an old wives tale. This is tantamouint to bullying of the worst kind, and a revelation...

needs an RS, the one in the article is apparently a collection of old wives tales if it is the source of this travesty. Greglocock (talk) 20:38, 28 January...

Bennett, while perhaps best known for his Clayhanger series and The Old Wives' Tale, was actually a very prolific writer and wrote plays, newspaper articles...

I strongly also oppose taking the fairly disparaging statement of old wives tale as the first thing in the paragraph in our article. If there exist studies...