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From that, Riddles gained some backing and had significant influence in the re-organisation of Crewe, which took place between 1925 and 1927. [2] In 1923, the LNWR became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway so, on completion of the work at Crewe, Riddles was sent to the ex- Midland Railway works at Derby, by then part of the LMS ...
A riddle is a statement, question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved. Riddles are of two types: enigmas, which are problems generally expressed in metaphorical or allegorical language that require ingenuity and careful thinking for their solution, and conundra, which are questions relying for their effects on punning in either the question or the ...
Exeter Book riddle 9; Exeter Book Riddle 12; Exeter Book Riddle 24; Exeter Book Riddle 25; Exeter Book Riddle 26; Exeter Book Riddle 27; Exeter Book Riddle 30; Exeter Book Riddle 33; Exeter Book Riddle 44; Exeter Book Riddle 45; Exeter Book Riddle 47; Exeter Book Riddle 51; Exeter Book Riddle 60; Exeter Book Riddle 61; Exeter Book Riddle 65 ...
Two are "hungry" and "angry". The third word is something everyone uses every day. Everyone knows what the third word means. What is the third word? [3] [21] The answer is "energy". The riddle says that the word ends in the letters g-r-y; it says nothing about the order of the letters.
A riddle joke, joke riddle, pseudo-joke or conundrum is a riddle that does not expect the asked person to know the answer, but rather constitutes a set-up to the humorous punch line of the joke. [1] It is one of the four major types of riddles, according to Nigel F. Barley. [2]
Riddle (tool), a large sieve used to separate finer from coarser particles of soil or compost; Riddle Airlines, an American airline founded in 1945; The Riddle Song, also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry," an English folk song; World riddle, of Friedrich Nietzsche, the meaning of life
The Oxford English Dictionary dates the word puzzle (as a verb) to the 16th century.Its earliest use documented in the OED was in a book titled The Voyage of Robert Dudley...to the West Indies, 1594–95, narrated by Capt. Wyatt, by himself, and by Abram Kendall, master (published circa 1595).
The riddle was a major, prestigious literary form in early medieval England, and riddles were written both in Latin and Old English verse. The pre-eminent composer of Latin riddles in early medieval England was Aldhelm (d. 709), while the Old English verse riddles found in the tenth-century Exeter Book include some of the most famous Old ...