Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
To John S Crosbie Chairman of the Bored of the International Save the Pun Foundation to the once and future grandchildren of Richard Lederer and to Danny Morice
Contents 1 It's a Punderful Life 1 2 Homographs at Play 9 3 Calling on the Homophone 19 4 Double Plays 25 5 Have You Ever Seen a Home Run 33 6 Four Cheers Five Inflationary Language 39 7 Let's Play a Game Said Tom Swiftly 43 8 A Bazaar Tale 49 9 Licensed 2 Pun 53 10 Puns That Babylon 59 11 Pun Your Way to Success 65 12 A Daffynitions Fictionary 71 13 Furry Tells end Noisier Rams 77 14 Silver Spoonerisms 83 15 What's the Difference 91 16 Tairy Fales 97
Pun and Games
It's a Punderful Life Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he anguage is fun Everyone who speaks and listens and reads and writes is involved with the natural playfulness of language Much of that play takes the form of punning as in this verse which has fun with the two meanings of the word weather and its similarity in sound to whether Whether the weather is good Or whether the weather is notj Whether the weather is cold Or whether the weather is hotj 1
