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Examples of punning
punning
Most of the titles are witty, reflecting Grahm's penchant for outrageous punning.
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Japanese piphilology has countless mnemonics based on punning words with numbers.
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Rich with homophones, the Chinese language is particularly well-suited to punning.
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This is a level of punning which is simply not possible in Russian or English.
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The punning of the title more than suggests the composer's sonic subtlety.
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Meanwhile, the Indian government seems capable of little more than punning.
From the time.com
Humor is risky, so curb the punning until they get to know you better.
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The scribes who invented the alphabet did so by deliberate, increasingly complex punning.
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Punning in America was therefore an expression of democratic progress.
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- A humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"
- Make a play on words; "Japanese like to pun--their language is well suited to punning"
- The pun, or paronomasia, is a form of word play which exploits numerous meanings of a statement, allowing it to be understood in multiple ways for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. ...
- Pan is family name originated from China. Pan also is often romanized as Poon, Pun, or Pon. The surname is spelled as Poon or Pun in Hong Kong and Macau, Ban (formerly, Pan) in South Korea and Phan in Vietnam.
- A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused; To tell a pun, to make a play on words
- (Puns) are not usually considered sound devices but are dependent upon the sound for their meaning. They are a humorous play on words using two words which sound alike but have different meaning. I'd give my soul for a new sole.
- Double meaning or ambiguity in a word, often employed in a witty way. Puns are often associated with wordplay.
- The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words.
- An expression that uses a homonym (two different words spelled identically) to deliver two or more meanings at the same time. For example, "When Professor Fudge asked his graduate students to bring a really good lay to the next class, their collective opinion of the scholar went up a notch."
