Tag: puns
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Heterophonic Homonyms
On a car journey on which they'd otherwise have been fighting, the kids helped me start a collection of heterophonic homonyms - words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings. I've got nine of them now in English, and maybe two in other languages... can you help me find some more?
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Monday Punday
For almost a year I've been slowly working my way through the archives of Monday Punday, a webcomic which challenges the reader to solve picture-based pun puzzles. Give it a go!
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Bumblebees surprise scientists with 'sophisticated' social learning
There are two - maybe three - things I love about the recent discovery that bees exhibit complex social learning behaviours. Allow me to drone on about bees for a while...
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Solitary Nouns
Collective nouns are great and all, but what if we had solitary nouns?
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Was a 10th century speaker of Old Saxon a "Saxophone"? 🤔
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I made a graph to show how the number of large hand tools stored in our garage has changed this last year but I forgot to label the axes.
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One off the #bucketlist this morning when local radio station @JACKfmOxford said, on-air, "Dan, please stop texting us puns."