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.

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 ...