Add to ORKGIn the style of edifice Wrecks (Bullwinkle). Mousey Dung (Kliban), You rippa dese, you menna dese! , and David Morice\u27s presidential puns in WW92-171, here\u27s abbrev history of the western world in the form of more or less homophonic puns and phonetic charades on famous names. This style of word play is also known as Anguish Languish and is analysed by the editor in the November 1997 Word Ways (02-276)
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I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
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Funny haha arguably, funny peculiar inarguably. No legit dictionary would touch these newords. So wh...
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The present paper is a corpus-based study seeking to demonstrate, both qualitatively and quantitativ...
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Here is an assortment of my own charades. Children who learn to recite patriotic songs, religious hy...
Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghe...
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswo...
By far the most popular form of word play is the pun. Linguists who prefer big words call his paron...
Scoffing at puns is a conditioned reflex, and through the centuries groan-ups have aimed a steady ba...
To publicize my two wordplay books, which were published in the early 1960s, I prepared a talk that ...
I wouldn\u27t be a rich letterer if I didn\u27t tell you that the acronimble Peter Pangram who put t...
To study the pun in depth is much like dissecting a butterfly. Once the scalpel is applied, the beau...
Funny haha arguably, funny peculiar inarguably. No legit dictionary would touch these newords. So wh...
Puns consist of homophone, homograph, homonym, juxtaposition of words with similar sounds, blending...
Since childhood, I have indulged a perverse fascination with spoonerisms, chaismus, and other forms ...
In my semi-definitive but now tragically out-of-print spoonerism book Cruel and Unusual Puns, I spok...
The present paper is a corpus-based study seeking to demonstrate, both qualitatively and quantitativ...
Yet another misdefinition pun quiz. Numbers in parentheses are the letters in the answer; (4|4) is a...
In our previous episode (Word Ways, August 2002), we examined a new crop of transposition puns accom...
Here is an assortment of my own charades. Children who learn to recite patriotic songs, religious hy...
Perhaps you know somebody (and that somebody could be you!) who occasionally says pascetti or spaghe...
Another Pun Quiz. The misdefinitions usually also hint at the actual meanings, as in cryptic crosswo...