How to pronounce “pun”(verb) in English

Puns sell.

And pun with pride.

Lawyers punned, judges punned in their judgments, the playwrights were punning, the poets were punning.

because punning thrives on ambiguity.

So punning is very powerful, even today.

Even condemned criminals would pun on the gallows to show that, hey, I'm not so low.

word genesis not pun intended but it wasn't one of those things where it started as an observation.

Just brilliant punning back and forth, back and forth, again, for purposes of subversion.

The great thing about punning is that it takes you from topic A to topic Q very randomly sometimes, apparently.

I would say that punning is very relevant meaning.

And so the reason why people pun in these situations is

That's the beautiful thing about punning, is that as soon as you try and define it, somebody can come up with one

And the early colonial preachers punned from the pulpit, here, to keep people engaged.

And you still got smart punning in some pop culture.

Think about the way that puns creep into our language.

And they have these long ritual punning duals in which they go back and forth, back and forth for hours, and you

And some of the social status that had been associated with punning was suddenly called into question, because, well, hey, if everyone can pun, it must not be that great a mark

So this happens to be the crux of punning, too, at its core--

And so who knew that Google was a punning organization intrinsically?

And I came across the story about Samuel Johnson punning.

But all the names of the creatures are punning references to things that are banned in China.

But there were 350 super nerds in the room punning-- not everyone was punning.

So how old do you think the first evidence of punning is?

So we know that people had the capacity for punning 35,000 years ago.

So I would just say pun with pride and remember that your

ideas clashing. And they were great sources of punning.

weren't that much smarter than the average Joe when it came to punning.

Now, am I arguing that punning is a substitute for reason?

Yes. How was Clinton at punning without his writers?

The headlines each day here in New York-- the Post and the Daily News go at it trying to out-pun each other.

So about 35,000 years ago, we have our first evidence of punning.

So, in essence, they were punning.

So regarding your time in Spain being the Foreign Correspondent, did you find that punning was similar

But sort of that's kind of a, a kind of punning into meaning.

So the name "Route to Power," routes is referring to the transport infrastructure systems, but also trying to pun on the idea of the roots

There was actually a lot of energy, pun intended, clearly.

And so SSGWI is very much about communication, finding solutions and creating a space, a happy space, where everybody's saying, "Um pun panama" and clapping in time.

So as you shift from an oral culture to a print culture, suddenly some of the wind is lost from the sails of punning

Now, you think, what does coffee have to do with punning?

And, in fact, if you do an image search, you'll find great punning sign boards across America today in that

And I'll get the exact quote, but he basically said, listen, you wouldn't believe all the punning that's going on here.

So the great orators, the great statesman, the great writers of the era, they were punning too.

human creativity. And that is one side of the coin, and punning is the other side.

Well, certain cultures, as I mentioned, esteem punning.