Get thee to a punnery / by Richard Lederer ; illustrations by Bill Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lederer, Richard, 1938-

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puns and punning.

Word games.

Anecdotes.

Local Subjects:

Puns and punning.

Word games.

Anecdotes.

Genre:

Anecdotes.

Puzzles and games.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (inscription) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 149 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charleston : Wyrick & Company, [©1988]

Summary:

More fun and games with the English language from the author of Anguished English. In addition to a cornucopia of puns, the reader is treated to a seriesnmanship skills.

Contents:

Game notes

In praise of puns

The word play's the thing

The time of the signs

Poetic licenses

A primer of puns

Homographs: the antics of semantics

Homophones: what do you call a naked grizzly?

Double sound puns: don't knock knock-knock jokes

Punupmanship

Have you ever seen a horse fly?

Four cheers five inflationary language

'Let's play a game,' said Tom Swiftly

Never say die

Firing and hiring

A daffynitions fictionary

Figuring out mathematical English

Anguish languish

Pig puns

The language blender

Silver spoonerisms

A round of set-ups

The answers.

Notes:

"Designed by Paul Rossmann."

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy inscribed "To Adena, on her birthday - With all my love for all the love, wisdom, & pfunning you bring to our lives. Chaim".

ISBN:

0941711072

9780941711074

0941711080

9780941711081

OCLC:

18378647