This clever word riddle asks:
“What starts with P, ends with E, and has thousands of letters?”
At first, it sounds like you are looking for one extremely long word containing thousands of alphabetic letters. That interpretation makes the puzzle seem almost impossible.
But the trick is that “letters” does not mean characters in a word. It means actual pieces of mail.
Think of a place whose name begins with the letter P and ends with the letter E, and where huge numbers of letters pass through every day.
A post office fits perfectly. “Post office” starts with P, ends with E, and can contain thousands of mailed letters waiting to be sorted, delivered, or collected.
That little change in the meaning of the word “letters” is what makes the riddle work.
Answer: A post office.
