Doctor Foster
/ˌdɒktə ˈfɒstə(r)/
/ˌdɑːktər ˈfɑːstər/
- a character in a short children's poem from the middle of the 19th century. Nobody knows whether the doctor was a real person or not. These are the words of the poem: “Doctor Foster went to GloucesterIn a shower of rain.He stepped in a puddleRight up to his middle,And never went there again.”
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