Ohhhhhh, that makes more sense, I always heard, "Nicky-nicky nine doors"
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And now you probably realise how fucking dumb cock-a-doodle-doo sounds to people outside the UK.
It's Nicky Nicky nine doors
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Well, knocking on doors is some 19th century tech level stuff, so Charles Dickens is actually really fitting.
I personally don't know of a single house/apartment around my home that doesn't have some form of electrical bell.
Is this some British cultural thing not having door bells?
UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe apparently
The house my parents live in is... about 120 years old iirc. There is a doorbell though.
I am from Germany, which also has some ancient building stock.
The town houses in the area in which I grew up typically are between 100 and 200 years old, some even much older.
All had an electric bell retrofitted.
Hence the name of the game consequently was "Klingelmännchen", which is hard to translate, as English is missing a diminutive word form.
Best translation is something like "little bell man".
So I am surprised that door-knockers are still a widespread thing in Britain, as someone mentioned in another comment.
Guess it really is some cultural thing.
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