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What's 3/7 Chicken, 2/3 Cat, And 2/4 Goat
Riddle: What's 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and 2/4 goat?
Answer: Chicago. The first three words out of seven of chicken are CHI, the first two words out of 3 of cat are CA, and the first two words out of goat are GO. Therefore making, (CHI)(CA)(GO).
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Fruit
Riddle: I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become an animal. Take away the first and last letter of my name and I become a form of music. What am I?
Answer: Grape.

Give Me To Keep Me
Riddle: Two words, my answer is only two words. To keep me, you must give me. What am I?
Answer: "Your word".
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More Word Play
Riddle: I am a rock group that has 4 members, all of whom are dead, one of which was assasinated. What am I?
Answer: Mount Rushmore.  Get it, rock group?

English Tricks
Riddle: What word of five letters has only one left when two letters are removed?
Answer: Stone Remove 'St' and you're left with 'One'
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Misspelled Word Riddle
Riddle: One word in this sentence is misspelled. What word is it?
Answer: MISSPELLED. It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS "misspelled."

-at Words
Riddle: What word doesn't belong in this group? That, hat, what, mat, cat, sat, pat, or chat?
Answer: What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme.
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Letter A
Riddle: Which word that begins with the letter I, and by adding the letter A, becomes another word that is pronounced the same?
Answer: Isle and Aisle.

Which Word In The English Language Becomes Shorter When It Is Lengthened
Riddle: Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened?
Answer: Short.

What Eleven-letter English Word Does Everyone Pronounce Incorrectly
Riddle: What eleven-letter English word does everyone pronounce incorrectly?
Answer: Incorrectly!
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Word Riddles Answers:

  1. Chicago. The first three words out of seven of chicken are CHI, the first two words out of 3 of cat are CA, and the first two words out of goat are GO. Therefore making, (CHI)(CA)(GO).
  2. Grape.
  3. "Your word".
  4. Mount Rushmore.  Get it, rock group?
  5. Stone Remove 'St' and you're left with 'One'
  6. MISSPELLED. It isn't spelled wrong, the one word in this sentence IS "misspelled."
  7. What. It's pronounced differently; all of the others rhyme.
  8. Isle and Aisle.
  9. Short.
  10. Incorrectly!