Funny Riddles

1. Can you think of a word that changes both number and gender when you add the letter 'S'?
   
   Answer:     Princes to Princess
2.  To cross the water I'm the way,
   
   For water I'm above;
   
   I touch it not, and truth to say,
   
   I neither swim nor move. What am I
   
   Answer:      A bridge 
3. What do the numbers 11, 69, and 88 all have in common?
   
   Answer:      They read the same backwards and forward. 
4. What word in the English language uses all five vowels plus Y in alphabetical order and uses each one only once?
   
   Answer:      Facetiously 
5. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
   
   Answer:      Short 
6. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?
   
   Answer:      Counterfeit money 
7. Two bodies have I;
   
   Tho' both join'd in one,
   
   The stiller I stand,
   
   The faster I run.
   
   Answer:      An hour glass timer 
8. I have a large money box, 10 inches square and 12 inches tall. Roughly how many pennies can I place in my empty money box?
   
   Answer:       Only 1 - after that my box wont be empty