Linguistic humor in India (May 08) Maybe, he'd have gotten a Ph.D. in linguistics. Linguistics! Our president! (Aug 07) Washington Post alternative definitions contest, 2007 (Jul 07) General Failure (Aug 06) Mayday, mayday, ... (Aug 06) If you're not part of the solution, ... (Jul 06) The purity of the English language (Oct 05) Roe v. Wade (Sep 05) Who's on first, updated for the 21st century (Jan 04)
Chest timers Clinton deploys vowels to Bosnia Hickphonics/English dictionary An Italian conversation Lowering crime rates through linguistic misunderstanding Phillyspeak
Apoptosis Daffynitions From The Devil's dictionary Glibquips: Funny words by funny women The meaning of is Science Scientific jargon Sniglets
Ambiguous recommendations Barbie's sex life Change Classified advertisements Deep thoughts from a chemistry student A drag Eskimo words for snow (not really humor, but pokes holes in urban legend) From elephant to condom Funny signs Funny signs in Great Britain Glibquips: Funny words by funny women Good friends Groucho Mark Headlines Husbands Job evaluations Kids' jokes Lexical ambiguity meets Beethoven's Ninth Mondegreens Newspaper screwups No (in two parts) Order in the court The right track School days Sixteen languages Speeding car Taxi Top ten things that sound dirty about the election but aren't Wives
Biscotti Bush decries hand recount (structural ambiguity) Bush starts cabinet selection Calvin and Hobbes Funny signs German lesson #7 Glibquips: Funny words by funny women How I met my wife Keep English verbs strong Mankind Merger mania New dog cross breeds A puzzled chicken From The search for intelligent life in the universe School days Scrod Sopa de cojones de matzo
The awful German language Foreign hotel signs Multilingualism, pro and con Name change in Alsace Royte pomerantsen, or How to laugh in Yiddish Sharing Shoecabbages Sixteen languages So-called borrowing
Anybody for president Double positive The flip side of the sign Funny signs in Great Britain Gandhi cancels a presupposition Glibquips: Funny words by funny women Hu's on first (a takeoff on Who's on first) Husbands If you promise someone something, keep it (from a fortune cookie) Instructions (with comments) The name of this place Newspaper screwups Royte pomerantsen, or How to laugh in Yiddish The Simpsons Where is God? Who's on first Wodehouse
AlGoreithm George W. Bush's Inaugural Address: The First Draft (word play) Car talk credits Glibquips: Funny words by funny women A glossary of medical terms How not to order quiche Kids' jokes Newspaper screwups Timbuktu Tom Swifties The war on Iraq explainified
No (in two parts) Premarital sex From The search for intelligent life in the universe
Accounting Ambiguous recommendations (structural ambiguity) The awful German language Cary Grant's repartee (structural ambiguity) Classified advertisements (structural ambiguity) Diagramming sentences Eating out, living over, and so on Funny signs Glibquips: Funny words by funny women Groucho Mark (structural ambiguity) Headlines (structural ambiguity) Mind reading (structural ambiguity) Newspaper screwups (structural ambiguity) Purple people eaters (structural ambiguity) School days (structural ambiguity) The Simpsons Sitting shiva for Running Water Steam locomotives (structural ambiguity) Stranded prepositions The Zen master at the hot dog stand (structural ambiguity)
Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben Glibquips: Funny words by funny women He, or she, or they, or who? Household principles for children The importance of grammar Jane Austen and other famous authors violate what everyone learned in their English class Mixed metaphors Newspaper screwups Rules for writing good School days Split infinitives ThurberStrengthening German verbs Whom Thurber
Trillin
WodehouseWorst analogies
Anagrams Homographs Janet Muggeridge's word play site Sarchasm and related terms
"America reads" receives E for effort Beware of heard Blinkenlights Bon appetit Classified advertisements The English lesson English spelling reform Funny signs in Great Britain German humor Give me a word Glibquips: Funny words by funny women Headlines Helpful phrases for work How to cook a turkey How to tell a language from a dialect Low German Newspaper screwups Obscene gerund? Out of sight, out of mind Quayle-speak "Satisfaction guaranteed" (announcement on an Amtrak train that was running half an hour late; "guaranteed" was left undefined) Excerpts from The search for intelligent life in the universe The sincerest form of flattery Three words in -gry Whining The writing on the wall Yogi Berra: Sayings and ripostes
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