Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/23/10

From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
Length: 01:30

WHAT ARE THE TEETH... Read the full description.

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Playing: Riddles from the Border Regions, 1/23/10
From: Joan VanBuskirk

Br_logo_small What are the teeth
That beauty bequeath?

It's the ambiguous wording that makes this riddle about a comb so difficult to solve. Does the beauty bequeath the teeth? Or do the teeth bequeath the beauty? If you scrutinize the wording, you'll discover a telling clue. The word is bequeath, not bequeaths, and that lets you know that the teeth bequeath the beauty. So the answer to this convoluted riddle is a comb. The teeth of a comb bequeath beauty.

NEW RIDDLE:
This sailboat of the endless sands
Gives passage 'cross the barren lands.
(the answer will be published on PRX in the 1/30/10 piece)

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Piece Description

What are the teeth
That beauty bequeath?

It's the ambiguous wording that makes this riddle about a comb so difficult to solve. Does the beauty bequeath the teeth? Or do the teeth bequeath the beauty? If you scrutinize the wording, you'll discover a telling clue. The word is bequeath, not bequeaths, and that lets you know that the teeth bequeath the beauty. So the answer to this convoluted riddle is a comb. The teeth of a comb bequeath beauty.

NEW RIDDLE:
This sailboat of the endless sands
Gives passage 'cross the barren lands.
(the answer will be published on PRX in the 1/30/10 piece)