Readers call on the homophone with puns and punctuation We English speakers seem possessed by a desire to use a bloated form of certain words when a more compact form will do.

Rather than hosting another ditto-fest, today I thought we'd use the homophone to explore the land of the pun, which has been an ongoing theme recently in the Wrap. One of.

Homophonic puns use word pairs which sound alike (homophones) but are not synonymous. The late, great George Carlin offered ...

PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — Sam Ezersky manages to get two 15-letter puns into a very substantial puzzle this week, ... A homophone for what we say when we mean “carbon copy,” on email, ...

PUNS AND ANAGRAMS — Alex Eaton-Salners is a prolific constructor of all kinds of puzzles for The Times. Over the past year his focus has been variety grids. This puzzle is his fourth for Puns ...