Jokes and rude rhymes
Channel: British Library
Date: 2016-10-13

Playgrounds are full of jokes and rhymes (some of them rude!) They might be learned from books, friends, families or teachers.  Some children like to make up their own words for well-known songs, – think of ‘Popeye the sailor man, lived in a frying pan’ or ‘Jingle bells, Batman smells’. Riddles are based on tricking people by using clever language, and can be good brain teasers. See if you can solve this riddle: 'I saw Esau sitting on a see-saw, how many s's in that?' Answer: there are no ‘s’s’ in the word ‘that’!

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