Answer:
What is up thatβs also down? Whatβs a smile and a frown?
What can be forever wound up but never annoyed?
The sun bakes them, the hand breaks them, the foot treads on them, and the mouth tastes them.
It stands upright and can be quite grand. Its secret is not hidden but right at hand. What is it?
I can be written, I can be spoken, I can be exposed, I can be broken.
Be sure to shout for its answers are weak, but there is no language it cannot speak.