General Riddles

What comes twice in a week, once in a year, but never in a month or a day?
The Letter 'E'.

A basket contains 5 apples. Do you know how to divide them among 5 kids so that each one has an apple and one apple stays in the basket?
Answer to this riddle goes as follows: 4 kids get an apple (one apple for each one of them) and the fifth kid gets an apple with the basket still containing the apple

I am a six letter word. Subtract one letter and twelve will remain. Who am I?

What room can no one enter?
A mushroom.

As a whole, I am both safe and secure. Behead me, and I become a place of meeting. Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready. Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts. What am I?
A Stable

I have a thumb and four fingers, but I have no flesh or bone. Who am I?

Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?
Incorrectly.

An American woman living in Australia was refused a burial in India. Why?
Living people can't be buried, isn't it!

Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

I have one letter but my name is spelled with eight. What am I?
Envelope

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