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26 in the Family
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There are 26 children in the family, including me. We are used constantly. What are we?
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too easy!!
Yeah .. I got it. . . but then it got me to thinking...
Who are the parents?
Who are the parents?
\"who are the parents? \"*giggle*
anyway. good idea, but too easy.
anyway. good idea, but too easy.
i would guess the parents would be capital letters
Jan 25, 2005
Lol..........they get capitalized so fast, dont ya think?
Good riddle!
Good riddle!
I got this one right off! I think the capital letters are the children all grown up.
WAY too easy...
Come on now, that's too easy... you have to make us work harder.
Ok cmon.. u could do a little better... but none the less it is a good one..
It really wasn't that easy. I've been out of grade school so long that I don't think of the alphabet when I hear the nuber 26.
EZ but it was a good riddle all the same. Well done i say.
Well done that was so easy it made me forget I knew the answer.
Wouldn't the parents be the runes? The FUTHARK? Uh, no...our alphabet came to us from the Romans! Right?
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