The Enid Blyton Society

Split from 'General Natter Room'.

A puzzle. Don't tell your answer. Don't search for the answer using Google.

What has 4 letters, sometimes 9 letters, but never has 5 letters.



Who know the answer?

I'm afraid the answer was obvious to me immediately, but I won't give it away.

I agree with you, Anita. The answer is obvious.

Yes, I agree with both Anita and Eddie. It's obvious the minute you've read the board.

Yes, got it as well!

Quite clever though - I've never seen that before.

Yes, no need to Google that one - really obvious. And I usually take ages to solve anything!

Reminds me a bit of the 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' - can you spell it? thing we used to ask at school!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious came long after my schooldays but, in the distant past, we asked the following question:

"Constantinople is a very long word, can you spell it?"

Same idea; different word.

I remember hearing both those jokes at school!

We used to say "Constantinople is a very long word. If you can't spell it, you're a very big fool."

Anita Bensoussane wrote:I remember hearing both those jokes at school!

me too! I'd forgotten the other one.

Also 'Adam and Eve and Pinch-me went down to the river to bathe,
Adam and Eve were drowned, who do you think were saved?'

Daft or what?!

Yes, that's another one I remember well!

I remember the teacher writing 'CONSTANTINOPLE' on the board and asking us to find as many words as we could from it! At the time I remember thinking what a long word it was, but it doesn't seem so long now somehow!

I also remember the "Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me" joke from my schooldays. It often got changed to "Kick-Me" or "Punch-Me".

Daft indeed!