Personalities and Commentaries (Wordplay)

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Punishment Punishment: An essay ridiculing puns, followed by some of the author's puns of his own. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.ssqq.com/ssqq/jokespuns.htm Puns of Steel Puns of Steel: Clay Smith's article on the science of interpreting puns as viewed by audience members of the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-05-12/books_feature.html Words and Stuff Words and Stuff: An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html Commentary on Puns Commentary on Puns: James Merrill's overview on punning. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm Punch Puns Punch Puns: Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.britannia.com/travel/betts/g2.html Art of Punning Art of Punning: A long paragraph about Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738) and his treatise on punning, plus mention of his correspondence with Jonathan Swift. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SH/SHERIDAN.htm Author's Defense Author's Defense: Claims that Jonathan Swift's love of wordplay and languages is fertile ground for Sanskritic wordplay in Gulliver's Travels, including the fact that Gulliver gave permission for readers to "adjust" the story. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.html Pun-Smoke Pun-Smoke: Maria Nutick's commentary on puns, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Richard Lederer. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.greenmanreview.com/film/film_punsmoke.html Richard Lederer's Verbivore Richard Lederer's Verbivore: Covers wordplay and puns plus his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email on the subjects. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/index.htm Lowest Form of Wit Lowest Form of Wit: Commentary on puns involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm Palindromes Palindromes: Commentary on palindromes plus a 306-word palindrome. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/palindromes/index.html Confessions Of A Humorist Confessions Of A Humorist: Commentary on punning and humor by O Henry. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1009/ The Atrium The Atrium: A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://atrium-media.com/goldenthreads/latinpuns.html The Pun FAQtory The Pun FAQtory: Covers the history and styling of punning. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://www.irregardless.net/punster/puns.html Examples of Tropes in Puns Examples of Tropes in Puns: Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM Yahoo! Groups: Puns-of-the-Day Yahoo! Groups: Puns-of-the-Day: An ever-growing group of punsters who swap puns. Seeks new members. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/puns-of-the-day/ Palindromes (Part One) Palindromes (Part One): Historical essay about word palindromes from ancient Greece to modern times. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000131.htm Language Organizations Language Organizations: List of organizations for the hardcore punster, wordplayer and verbivore. (Personalities and Commentaries) http://pw1.netcom.com/~rlederer/rlorg.htm