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To: SaveFerris

Some of us have a problem with humor which entails plays on words and puns. I’m not one of them. 😇

There’s a word for what we do:

Paronomasia: The technical term for punning, which relies on the phonetic similarities between words for a humorous or rhetorical effect.


7 posted on 09/20/2025 12:15:49 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: frank ballenger; gundog

Paronomasia

Oh yeah, I love that on a BLT

MUCH better than Miracle Whip


10 posted on 09/20/2025 12:27:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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