Nursery rhyme rhymes became associated with the idea of political correctness. Most attempts to reform nursery rhymes on this basis appear to be either very small scale, light-hearted updating, like Felix Dennis's "When Jack Sued Jill – Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times" (2006), or satires written as if from the point of view of political correctness in order to condemn reform. The controversy in Britain in 1986 over changing the language of "Baa Baa Black Sheep" because, it was alleged in the popular press, it was seen as racially dubious, was apparently based only on a rewriting of the rhyme in one
William S. Baring-Gould later, Baring-Gould wrote "The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New, Arranged and Explained", with his wife, Lucile "Ceil" Baring-Gould. The book provides a wealth of information about nursery rhymes, and includes often-banned bawdy rhymes. In 1967, Baring-Gould published "The Annotated Sherlock Holmes", an annotated edition of the Sherlock Holmes canon. The following year, Baring-Gould published "The Lure of the Limerick", a study of the history and allure of limericks; it included a collection of limericks, arranged alphabetically, and a bibliography. The book was republished in 1974. Baring-Gould also wrote "Nero Wolfe of West Thirty-fifth Street: The life and