A headless lawyer had a letter to write; It was read by a man who had lost his sight. The dumb repeated it word for word; And deaf was he who listened and heard.
Answer
The letter in question is the letter 'O'. It is zero. The lawyer had nothing to write. The blind could read nothing. The person who was dumb could repeat nothing. The deaf man listened and heard nothing.
More Word Riddles
Many Words From One
There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time?
The base word is Startling.
The Answer Is Right in Front of You...
The beginning of eternity
The end of time and space
The beginning of every end,
And the end of every place
