Newspaper riddle
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Newspaper riddle
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The newspaper riddle is a riddle joke or conundrum in English that begins with the question: The traditional answer, which relies upon the identical pronunciation of the words "red" and "read", is: Barrick believes this riddle to be "perhaps the most common example of a folk riddle collected in the United States in the twentieth century", pointing out that between 1917 and 1939 it appeared in 15 collections of folk riddles, and in a further six between 1939 and 1974. Alternative answers to the r
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