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.

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, ...

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.

A shame, given that the homophone-rich Chinese vocabulary, as the Guardian points out, “is perfectly suited to puns.” ... Seems like all broadcasters can do now is have their pun while they can.

Fortunate Fish. Homophones play their part in superstition as well as humor. Because “four” and “death” have the same pronunciation (shi), some buildings do not have a fourth floor ...

Maybe the homophones choose, as a dog chews shoes. “Our hour has come,” proclaim the militant homophones. “We are discrete but no longer discreet.” They threaten to uproot heteronymativity.

I used puns, metaphors and homophones — any kind of linguistic trick I could think of — to express my approval or disapproval. Later on, at Southern People Weekly, one of China’s most influential ...

Next, He staged a pun contest, pitting the AI against (human) humorists. According to the crowdworkers who rated the puns, the results were … not great for the machines, at least by human standards.

China is cracking down on ‘uncivilised language’, puns, and homophones online, prompting concerns that it could erode whatever room is available to the citizens for discussing sensitive topics ...

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 ...