That implies popularity, but I&#x27;ve never heard of <i>any</i> of the alliterative characters mentioned in Wikipedia:<p>&gt; In 1849, a &quot;very different&quot; English version was published under the title &quot;The Story of Chicken-Licken&quot; by Joseph Orchard Halliwell.[15] In this Chicken-licken was startled when &quot;an acorn fell on her bald pate&quot; and encounters the characters Hen-len, Cock-lock, Duck-luck, Drake-lake, Goose-loose, Gander-lander, Turkey-lurkey and Fox-lox.