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Discover LudwigThe word "pun" is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that means a play on words or a joke that relies on a double meaning or a similar-sounding word. For example, you could say "My dad always had a knack for making puns to lighten up the conversation."
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pun
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A joke or type of wordplay in which similar senses or sounds of two words or phrases, or different senses of the same word, are deliberately confused.
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It's a peculiar thing, when you think about it, that a miserable pun has become as important as the Queen's Speech and The Wizard of Oz.
It was, pun very much intended, a trainwreck.
Dubbed 'Moments' by Creative Director Alex Breuer (with the pun intended), the idea evolved to be a single piece of content for a user at any given time.
Yesterday's royal engagement announcement gave the opportunity for the PM to bury the news, claims Campbell: "So to midwives, and an article Mr Cameron wrote in The Sun earlier this year (pre-election) saying that a Tory government would deliver, no pun intended, more midwives to help the hard-pressed midwives we already have.
During Hillary Clinton's last run for the US presidency, a run of Hillary nut-crackers – pun intended – sold out several times over.
What swings it for me is that Guru-Murthy later tweeted the whole thing, with lame pun ("A steely moment from Ironman").
Its title is a pun if the letters are pronounced in French: "Elle a chaud au cul', or 'She has a hot ass'.
2. Safety Obviously this is going to be pretty high on the list of necessary discussion topics, given everything that's happened this year (especially the number of high-profile players knocked out of play – pun intended – by concussions. Remember Sidney Crosby?).
No-one enunciates a terrible pun or sweary pay-off like Schwarzenegger.
If that pun is terrible, then it's only fitting, because there are tonnes of similar efforts on Yeezus ("I'm a rap-lic priest", he says on I'm In It, "I be speaking Swag-hili").
As everyone probably knows by now, the title is a pun on "dying young".
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