For my first post of the 2011-12 school year, I'm opening with a play on words because, apart from the academic uses of English, I believe there's always room for fun.
A lexiphile is a lover of words, one who is fascinated by words and language. Here is an example of a lexiphile at play:
(If you don't understand some of the vocabulary, make friends with your English dictionary; no translators, please, as they will fail to explain the humor.)
1. A dentist and a manicurist married. They fought tooth and nail.
2. To write with a broken pencil is pointless.
3. When fish are in schools, they sometimes take debate.
4. The batteries were given out free of charge.
5. A will is a dead giveaway.
6. If you don't pay your exorcist, you can get repossessed.
7. With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
8. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft, and I'll show you A-flat miner.
9. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
10. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
11. When you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
12. Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.
13. Did you hear about the fellow whose whole left side was cut off? He's all right now.
14. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
15. In a democracy, it's your vote that counts; in feudalism, it's your Count that votes.
16. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
17. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
18. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
Which was your favorite pun, and why? (If you don't know the meaning of pun, look it up.)
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