Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

Monday, March 11, 2019

Velcro is a portmanteau of velvet and crochet




Sunday, February 24, 2019

Ten funny tweets








































Sunday, March 25, 2018

"Sentence house"


Wednesday, March 7, 2018

"about 10 years ago a supernatural love for words came upon me. When you get changed, you can’t help it. It’s spiritual”

From a thread about playing a "Scrabble legend."


Wednesday, June 21, 2017

"This Guy Spent A Year Exploring The Subculture Of Competitive Punning"

FC:
“The best pun I heard during the course of writing the book was: ‘I went to go shopping for cherries and microphones the other day: bought a bing, bought a boom,'” Joe told me. “The worst pun I heard was: ‘If steaks can’t satisfy you, can ribs?’ where the words ‘Can ribs’ were somehow supposed to form a pun on ‘Cribs.’ This was 15 minutes into a pun duel about furniture and all the good puns were taken, but still

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Lots of Americans quietly love puns but either don’t realize it or are ashamed to admit it.
His book is available at Amazon.