Have you ever heard of a dandle board? I hadn't and it is the name of a common playground item,the teeter-totter/see-saw. In the eastern states of the US,Narragansett Bay,RI. it is called a dandle,or dandle board,in neighboring Massachusetts they are called teedle boards. Heading south from there,the name changes again to ridey-horse,and it the coastal regions of North Carolina it becomes hickey-horse. There are more names for this basic lever and fulcrum toy as you enter other countries,in France it is ci-ca,meaning this-that. The name teeter totter originated from Norfolk,England from the word tittermatorter. All these different terms for such a seemingly simple device,any wonder people have such a difficult time getting on the same page. Let's not even think about monkey bars or jungle gyms!
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