Monday, June 29, 2026

Poetry I like: The Woodchuck: Children's Tongue Twister

 I saw several yellow-bellied marmots (woodchucks) at the Bannock County museum running around the outside exhibits.  I caught a couple pictures as they ran around.  


Reminds me of a childhood rhyme. 

"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck; If a woodchuck could chuck wood?"  This poem actually has a second part-the answer.  "A woodchuck would chuck as much wood, as a woodchuck could chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood."  Woodchucks actually do not chuck wood, but dig burrows in the ground.  Theiur name comes from the algonquin word for them, Wuchak.  


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