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It's not. It's called a see-saw.
1640, in see-saw-sacke a downe, words in a rhythmic jingle used by children and repetitive motion workers, probably imitative of the rhythmic back-and-forth motion of sawyers working a two-man saw over wood or stone (see saw). Ref. to a game of going up and down on a balanced plank is recorded from 1704; fig. sense is from 1714. Applied from 1824 to the plank arranged for the game. The verb is from 1712.
See-Saw are words said in a rhythmic jingle used by children and repetitive motion workers. Its the same as the rhythmic back-and-forth motion of sawyers working a two-man saw over wood or stone.
I see, I once saw a see saw ., I saw it beside the sea, A man with a saw saw the see saw and saw that the see saw was broke, He sawed a piece to fix the see saw and then saw the see saw was ok , I saw him sit on the see saw with his saw and saw he was happy..
It's not sea-saw, it is actually a see-saw.
Maybe it's because one second you are up and you can "see" everything and the next second you are down and you "saw" everything.
Maybe, I dunno, perhaps.
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They are also called "teeter-totters".
There was a comic strip a while back, where a character had just invented the see-saw but was not sure what to call it. He got a friend to sit on one end while he sat on the other end, and finally got his inspiration with:
"I SEE the horizon!...I SAW the horizon!..."
Try this mild tongue twister : -
"I saw Esaw, sitting by the seesaw, how many s's' in that".
The answer by the way is none [there is no letter s in that].
This is from childhood memory of the 1940s.
Were we totally mad? Apparently.
Seesaw - Wikipedia, - A seesaw (also known as a teeter-totter) is a long, narrow board suspended in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other goes down. ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/seesaw...
Seeing the word 'teeter-totter' as another name for seesaw, I can see why it probably never caught on.
I remember my Mum saying a rhyme, "see saw Marjory Daw" but I don't remember the rest of it.
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