Knowledge: personalities and commentaries
Links
- Words and Stuff
http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html - An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
- Author's Defense
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.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.
- Commentary on Puns
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm - James Merrill's overview on punning.
- Examples of Tropes in Puns
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM - Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
- The Pun FAQtory
http://www.irregardless.net/punster/puns.html - Covers the history and styling of punning. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns.
- Yahoo! Groups: Puns-of-the-Day
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/puns-of-the-day/ - An ever-growing group of punsters who swap puns. Seeks new members.
- The Atrium
http://atrium-media.com/goldenthreads/latinpuns.html - A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
- Confessions Of A Humorist
http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1009/ - Commentary on punning and humor by O Henry.
- Lowest Form of Wit
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm - Commentary on puns involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links.
- Palindromes
http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/palindromes/index.html - Commentary on palindromes plus a 306-word palindrome.
- Palindromes (Part One)
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000131.htm - Historical essay about word palindromes from ancient Greece to modern times.
- Puns of Steel
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-05-12/books_feature.html - 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.
- Pun-Smoke
http://www.greenmanreview.com/film/film_punsmoke.html - Maria Nutick's commentary on puns, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Richard Lederer.
- Richard Lederer's Verbivore
http://www.verbivore.com/ - Covers wordplay and puns plus his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email on the subjects.
- Art of Punning
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sheridan - A long paragraph about Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738) and his treatise on punning, plus mention of his correspondence with Jonathan Swift.
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