This classic riddle asks:
“What has a mouth but never speaks?”
At first, it sounds like the answer should be a person or animal. But the trick is that the word “mouth” can describe something that isn’t alive.
A river has a mouth where its flowing water empties into a larger body of water, such as a lake, sea, or ocean.
It may have a mouth, but of course it can never actually speak.
Answer: A river.
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