Betty Botter - Paraphrases

Paraphrases

Some versions are paraphrases that have extraneous words like: "But, she said, this ... If I put it in my ... That would make my ..." "I would like to make some ... tasted her butter and said... and threw away her ..."

A Caribbean paraphrase version is:

Betty Botter had a bit of butter and said,

"I would like to make some batter."

Betty Botter tasted her butter and said,

"If I put this in my batter it would make my batter bitter."

Betty Botter bought some fresher butter and threw away her bitter butter

Betty put her butter in her batter and it made her batter better.

Such paraphrases focus on the story content instead of the tongue-twister content.

Canadian writer Dennis Lee included an extended version entitled "The Sitter and the Butter and the Better Batter Fritter" in his classic children's poetry collection Alligator Pie.