single word requests - What do you call it when you ask a question but you actually know the answer?



And you may not really expect an answer or want/need an answer. Not quite rhetorical. For example you may be talking about something that happened and wondering who did it and everyone knows who did it including yourself but you ask, 'I wonder who that was.'




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