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Words' worth: a review of Alphabet Juice
A new book about language is always cause for rejoicing, especially when it celebrates both the serious and the humorous aspects of words. A new...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
Colloquy
Don Hauptman wrote the New York Times: Don Hauptman wrote the New York Times: To the Editor, "Pun for the Ages" by Joseph Tartakovsky (Op-ed,...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
Prefix meals: more media bloopers with waggish comebacks
Below, a fresh batch of entertaining mistakes and anomalies followed by witty ripostes--assembled for my book in progress, the working title of...
Word Ways, 05/01/09 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
What now? Not "wow!": new spoonerisms
Each August, cartoonist Jim Siergey and I collaborate on a collection of illustrated spoonerisms for Word Ways. Invariably, however, I have more...
Word Ways, 02/01/09 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
A needed new word?
Word Ways' regular wordplay contributor Don Hauptman reports: Word Ways' regular wordplay contributor Don Hauptman reports: Recently, I bought...
Word Ways, 08/01/08 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
Spoonertoons 5: drawing a sign in the land
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE TOAD NOT RAKEN [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOT IN THE SHED [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "THE...
Word Ways, 08/01/08 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
Rocket surgery: even more published bloopers and oddities with puckish retorts
As I continue work on a book of funny errors, I encounter no shortage of material. Whether online or in print, one readily finds such...
Word Ways, 05/01/08 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
An oasis from the stasis: more linguistic observations, paradoxes, and miscellanea
It's time for another roundup of entertaining language-related trivia that couldn't find a logical place in my usual articles. I last compiled this...
Word Ways, 02/01/08 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
Flack jackets and increased salvation: still more published gaffes and oddities with barbed retorts
For a book in progress, I continue to compile entertaining published anomalies and errors, appending to each a waggish response--a format...
Word Ways, 11/01/07 by Don Hauptman · More from publication -
"When I hear the word 'culture,' I reach for my pun!"
Contrary to popular belief, puns are not all bad. Indeed, they can be intelligent, literate and witty. But a high-quality pun must meet several...
Word Ways, 05/01/07 by Don Hauptman · More from publication
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