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A woodchuck Sawn logs of wood "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck" (sometimes phrased with "could" rather than "would") is an American English-language tongue-twister. [1] [2] The woodchuck, a word originating from Algonquian "wejack", is a kind of marmot, regionally called a groundhog. [3]
The etymology of the name woodchuck is unrelated to wood or any sense of chucking. It stems from an Algonquian (possibly Narragansett) name for the animal, wuchak. [17] The similarity between the words has led to the popular tongue-twister: [18] How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
A woodchuck would chuck all the wood he could chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood. The following twister entered a contest in Games Magazine on the November/December 1979 issue and was announced the winner on the March/April 1980 issue: [ 6 ] [ 7 ]
How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (German: Beobachtungen zu einer neuen Sprache, literally "Observations of a New Language") is a 1976 documentary film by German director Werner Herzog, produced by Werner Herzog Filmproduktion. [2] It is a 44-minute film documenting the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship held in New Holland, Pennsylvania.
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A so-called woodchuck (correctly speaking, a groundhog) would chuck - that is, throw - as much as the woodchuck in question was physically able to chuck, if woodchucks in general had the capability and presumably, the motivation, to chuck wood. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nolan Perry (talk • contribs) 16:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
One of his biggest comedy successes was with "The Woodchuck Song", written by Theodore Morse, with a chorus of "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?", [2] which he recorded in 1904 for Edison, Columbia, Victor, and Zon-O-Phone Records. [4]