Pun and Games: Jokes, Riddles, Daffynitions, Tairy Fales, Rhymes, and More Word Play for Kids
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
ll weather the weather W'hatever the weather W'hether we like it or not You have been speaking hearing and reading puns most of your life When you were very young you prob ably chanted songs like and Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy was he A sailor went to C-C-C To see what he could C-C-C But all that he could C-C-C the bottom of a great blue C-C-C These verses are children's first attempts to put into memorable form their pleasure in discovering that the same sound can suggest two or three different mean ings-Wuzzy and was hej C sea and see Words and sounds that spark forth two or more meanings are called puns A pun has been defined as a play upon words a play up un words and a prey upon words Unless you were raised as a hermit or if you are a boy a hismit you probably recognize many of these traditional riddles What's black and white and red read all over A newspaper 2
It's a Punderful Life What did the letter say to the stamp Stick with me and we'll go places What kind of shoes are made from banana skins Slippers What kind of rooms have no walls Mushrooms How do you know when it's raining cats and dogs W'hen you step in a poodle How do you know when it's raining cats and dogs 3
