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Q.: Why is “O” the noisiest of vowels ? z A.: Because the rest are inaudible. Q.: When does a chair dislike you? A.: When it cannot bear you. Q.: What word in English is both sour and sweet? x A.: Tart. Q.: When is a straight field not a straight field? A.: When it is a rye-field (awry). Q.: What insect lives on nothing? A.: A moth, because it eats holes.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 103, 25 January 1930, Page 26
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