Page 54 - Başak Dergisi TEMMUZ 2021 4. Sayı

3T tongue twisters time Teacher: If I had 6 oranges in one hand and 7

apples in the other, what would I have?
Student: Big hands!

Why is six afraid of seven?
1-Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?(- Because seven ate nine!
Yes you can do this!)

-How do bees get to school?
2-I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch On the school buzz!

3-Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no Why did the chicken leave the library saying ‘book, book book’?
hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn’t fuzzy, was he? Because that’s the noise chickens make!

4-Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers Why was Tigger in the bathroom?
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked He was looking for Pooh!
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Pi-
per picked?

5-How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a THE WORDS
woodchuck could chuck wood?

He would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as ORIGIN TIMES
much wood 1-Quiz
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck wood
The story behind the origins of the word “quiz” is so good that we really wish it was true – but it
probably isn’t. Legend has it that a Dublin theatre-owner made a bet that he could introduce a
new word into the English language within a day or two (the amount of time differs in different
JOKES TİME (JK CORNER) tellings of the story), and that the people of Dublin would make up the meaning of the word

themselves. So he wrote the nonsense word “quiz” on some pieces of paper and got a gang of
street urchins to write it on walls across Dublin. The next day everyone was talking about it, and it
Dad can you explain to me what a solar eclipse is wasn’t long before it became incorporated into everyday language, meaning a sort of “test”, be-
No sun cause this is what the people thought the mysterious word was supposed to be. According to the

Not to brag, but I defeated our local chess champion telling of the story recorded in Gleanings and Reminiscences by F.T. Porter (written in 1875), the
yesterday in less than 5 moves. events of this humorous tale unfolded in 1791, and this is where the story becomes less convincing.
Finally my high school karate classes came in useful The word “quiz” is attested earlier than this date, used to refer to someone who is eccentric or
odd (hence the word “quizzical”); it was also the name of a yo-yo-like toy popular in 1790. That

What did one ocean say to the other ocean? said, it’s still difficult to find a compelling explanation for the origins of this word, so perhaps there
Nothing, it just waved is an element of truth in this excellent story after all.

What’s the difference between a hippo and a zippo? 2-Nightmare
One is really heavy and the other’s a litt- It sounds as though it refers to a female horse, but in fact the “mare” part of the word “nightma-
le lighter re” (a terrifying dream) comes from Germanic folklore, in which a “mare” is an evil female spirit

or goblin that sits upon a sleeper’s chest, suffocating them and/or giving them bad dreams. The
same Germanic word – “maron” – gives rise to similar words in many Scandinavian and European
5-Why did the bullet end up losing his job? languages. Interestingly, in Germanic folklore, it was believed that this “mare” did more than just
He got fired terrorise human sleepers. It was thought that it rode horses in the night, leaving them sweaty and

exhausted next day, and it even wreked havoc with trees, twisting their branches.
53