戦前はどうやってしりとりをしていたのですか？


（[日本語でもしてみむとて](https://japanese.meta.stackexchange.com/q/1318/7810)）

現在遊ばれている「しりとり」は基本的に終わりの一文字をつないでやるものだと思いますが、例えば「がっこ **う**
」なら（東京の発音ではガッコーですが）次は「う」、「こうて **い** 」（コーテー）なら「い」というルールになると思います。

これを旧かな遣いで考えると「杖（つ **ゑ** ）」は「ゑ」、「家（い **へ**
）」は「へ」でないといけないと思います。そうだとすると子供の遊びにしてはやや難しいと思いますが、逆に言えば教育にはよかったのかもしれません（笑）。戦前はこのようにして遊んでいたのでしょうか。




I did 尻取り games when I was a child before the war--more than 70 years ago--as
every child did.

尻取り was one of the most popular and inexpensive games played among pre-war
children, because they didn't have video games or smartphones to kill time as
today's children do.

I and other children never paid attention to whether the ending letter of the
word was を or お, え or ゑ, へ or え, because we were unable to tell the difference
of the usage of these words which are pronounced same but written differently.
We linked the words only based on the ending sound (the last syllable) of the
preceding word and the beginning sound (the first syllable) of the following
word, not on the characters, when playing a 尻取り game.

There was a problem, which occurred when the ending of the precedent word was
ん, as there is no Japanese word that starts with ん. In that case, we followed
the previous word with うん such as 運転手、運動会, and sometimes, うんこ and うんち, as we
didn't know then big words like 運命、運気、運否天賦、薀蓄.

By the way, I'm curious to know whether Anglo-Americans, who don't have
syllabic characters as we have in あいうえお, have a similar word game to 尻取り or
not, and what they call it if they have one.




I did 尻取り games when I was a child before the war--more than 70 years ago--as
every child did.

尻取り was one of the most popular and inexpensive games played among pre-war
children, because they didn't have video games or smartphones to kill time as
today's children do.

I and other children never paid attention to whether the ending letter of the
word was を or お, え or ゑ, へ or え, because we were unable to tell the difference
of the usage of these words which are pronounced same but written differently.
We linked the words only based on the ending sound (the last syllable) of the
preceding word and the beginning sound (the first syllable) of the following
word, not on the characters, when playing a 尻取り game.

There was a problem, which occurred when the ending of the precedent word was
ん, as there is no Japanese word that starts with ん. In that case, we followed
the previous word with うん such as 運転手、運動会, and sometimes, うんこ and うんち, as we
didn't know then big words like 運命、運気、運否天賦、薀蓄.

By the way, I'm curious to know whether Anglo-Americans, who don't have
syllabic characters as we have in あいうえお, have a similar word game to 尻取り or
not, and what they call it if they have one.

