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1. Art of Punning [ Report dead link ]
A long paragraph about Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738) and his treatise on punning, plus mention of his correspondence with Jonathan Swift.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Sheridan
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2. Author's Defense [ Report dead link ]
Claims that Jonathan Swift's love of wordplay and languages is fertile ground for Sanskritic wordplay in Gulliver's Travels, including the fact that Gulliver gave permission for readers to "adjust" the story.
http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.html
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3. Commentary on Puns [ Report dead link ]
James Merrill's overview on punning.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm
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4. Confessions Of A Humorist [ Report dead link ]
Commentary on punning and humor by O Henry.
http://www.online-literature.com/o_henry/1009/
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5. Examples of Tropes in Puns [ Report dead link ]
Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM
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6. Lowest Form of Wit [ Report dead link ]
Commentary on puns involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links.
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm
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7. Palindromes [ Report dead link ]
Commentary on palindromes plus a 306-word palindrome.
http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/palindromes/index.html
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8. Palindromes (Part One) [ Report dead link ]
Historical essay about word palindromes from ancient Greece to modern times.
http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000131.htm
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9. Pun-Smoke [ Report dead link ]
Maria Nutick's commentary on puns, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Richard Lederer.
http://www.greenmanreview.com/film/film_punsmoke.html
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10. Punch Puns [ Report dead link ]
Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples.
http://www.britannia.com/travel/betts/g2.html
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