A Pun! A Pun? My Kingdom for a Pun!
We all love puns ... those wonderfully witty plays on words.
So let's see how active your little grey cells are at the moment ... I've posted a list of homonyms from Alan Cooper's wonderful list below and your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to come up with some puns using some or all of the words listed.
Easy peasy!
The prize is a copy of my modestly named quiz book: A Word for Everything. This is a collection of quizzes gleaned from my newsletters from the past 6 years.
To enter, just click the Add Comment link, enter your pun (don't forget your name and country).
IMPORTANT: make sure when setting up your account with blogger that you allow me to email you.
The List ... use some or all of these in your pun:
brewed - fermented
brood - family
carat - unit of weight for precious stones, equal to 200 milligrams
caret - proofreader's insertion mark
carrot - edible orange root
karat - one 24th part of otherwise pure gold
cereal - grains
serial - numbers in sequence
dual - two things
duel - a fight between two over honor
elicit -to draw out
illicit - unlawful
ewes - more than one female sheep
use - to apply
yews - more than one yew tree
might - possible
mite - tiny creature
place - a location
plaice - a flounder
taper - edge-shaped
tapir - hoglike, Malaysian mammal
verses - paragraphs
versus - against
whirred - made a whizzing or buzzing sound
word - a speech sound
(Homonyms and definitions from: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html)
OK ... off you go ...
So let's see how active your little grey cells are at the moment ... I've posted a list of homonyms from Alan Cooper's wonderful list below and your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to come up with some puns using some or all of the words listed.
Easy peasy!
The prize is a copy of my modestly named quiz book: A Word for Everything. This is a collection of quizzes gleaned from my newsletters from the past 6 years.
To enter, just click the Add Comment link, enter your pun (don't forget your name and country).
IMPORTANT: make sure when setting up your account with blogger that you allow me to email you.
The List ... use some or all of these in your pun:
brewed - fermented
brood - family
carat - unit of weight for precious stones, equal to 200 milligrams
caret - proofreader's insertion mark
carrot - edible orange root
karat - one 24th part of otherwise pure gold
cereal - grains
serial - numbers in sequence
dual - two things
duel - a fight between two over honor
elicit -to draw out
illicit - unlawful
ewes - more than one female sheep
use - to apply
yews - more than one yew tree
might - possible
mite - tiny creature
place - a location
plaice - a flounder
taper - edge-shaped
tapir - hoglike, Malaysian mammal
verses - paragraphs
versus - against
whirred - made a whizzing or buzzing sound
word - a speech sound
(Homonyms and definitions from: http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html)
OK ... off you go ...
posted by Jennifer | 9:48 am
10 Comments:
Pun;
The follow up to "The Silence of the Lambs" is to be called "Ewes are Next!"
Warm Regards, Jennny.
Maitiu, Dublin,
As a drink, Guinness is a brewed apart...
If I have to elaborate on this, it isn't working. ;-))
Maitiu, Dublin
The 70 year old codger asked the 20 year old "fine thing", would she marry him if he dangled a carat under her nose.
Two drivers raced each other on the Duel Carriageway...
..hey, I just realised that it's after 8am and I have work to do...CUL.....
But I've started the ball rolling.
love the idea.
Maitiu, Dublin
The baby took a mitey gulp of food.
....sigh...best I can do on a poor diet...This blessed thing has gotten into my head...
Maitiu, Dublin
Sheakespeare verses Bacon is one of the arguments of the ages.
...I really must get some work done.....Go Away, Jennifer!....
Maitiu, Dublin
Beer makes me brewedy
Sheila, Canary Islands
A cockroach and a dust mite were arguing about the theory of relativity. Mite was right.
Sheila, Canary Islands
The Colorado Beetle is a cereal killer.
Maitiu , Dublin
On the slippery surface, the fisherman floundered around the plaice.
Maitiu, Dublin
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