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Dilection, obscure for choice or choosing.

As a children's rhyme used for choosing a person or thing:

Eeny meeny miney mo, (eknee, meknee, myknee, mo) my wordplay.
Catch a tiger by his toe;...

How does "knee", or "nee", become "part of a child's rhyming dilection"? I can get the rest, I think.

(I was thinking of "salon", instead of "court" so I was way off. :lol: )

HBJ

I think I’ve got part of it, but I am completely blocked on the rest.