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Covers wordplay and puns plus his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email on the subjects.
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Richard Lederer's Verbivore Welcome to the web site woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here...An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
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.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.html
James Merrill's overview on punning.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm
Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetor...ures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM
Covers the history and styling of punning. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns.
http://www.irregardless.net/punster/puns.html
Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples.
http://www.britannia.com/travel/betts/g2.html
An ever-growing group of punsters who swap puns. Seeks new members.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/puns-of-the-day/
A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
http://atrium-media.com/goldenthreads/latinpuns.html
Commentary on punning and humor by O Henry.
http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1009/
Commentary on puns involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links.
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm
Commentary on palindromes plus a 306-word palindrome.
http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/palindromes/index.html
Historical essay about word palindromes from ancient Greece to modern times.
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000131.htm
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.
http://www.austinchronicle.com/i...ch/2000-05-12/books_feature.html
A long paragraph about Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738) and his treatise on punning, plus mention of his correspondence with Jonathan Swift.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SH/SHERIDAN.htm
Maria Nutick's commentary on puns, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Richard Lederer.
http://www.greenmanreview.com/film/film_punsmoke.html
An essay ridiculing puns, followed by some of the author's puns of his own.
http://www.ssqq.com/ssqq/jokespuns.htm