- Words and Stuff - http://www.kith.org/logos/words/words.html
An occasional column commenting on words and wordplay.
- Author's Defense - http://geocities.com/sanskritpuns99/defense.html
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.
- Commentary on Puns - http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/merrill/puns.htm
James Merrill's overview on punning.
- Examples of Tropes in Puns - http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/Groupings/OF%20WORDPLAY.HTM
Technical analysis of paranomasia, onomatopoeia, antanaclasis and syllepsis.
- The Pun FAQtory - http://www.irregardless.net/punster/puns.html
Covers the history and styling of punning. The unofficial FAQ for the UseNet newsgroup alt.humor.puns.
- Punch Puns - http://www.britannia.com/travel/betts/g2.html
Historical commentary on this famous British magazine's punning in 1841-2. Contains punnish lithographs as examples.
- The Atrium - http://atrium-media.com/goldenthreads/latinpuns.html
A technical, literary-oriented string of letters from viewers commenting on puns in classical Latin works.
- Lowest Form of Wit - http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000609.htm
Commentary on puns involving Freud, Jesus and playwrights, plus links.
- Palindromes - http://www.growndodo.com/wordplay/palindromes/index.html
Commentary on palindromes plus a 306-word palindrome.
- Palindromes (Part One) - http://puzzles.about.com/library/weekly/aa000131.htm
Historical essay about word palindromes from ancient Greece to modern times.
- Puns of Steel - http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-05-12/books_feature.html
Clay Smith's article on the science of interpreting puns as viewed by audience members of the 23rd Annual O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships.
- Art of Punning - http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SH/SHERIDAN.htm
A long paragraph about Thomas Sheridan (1687-1738) and his treatise on punning, plus mention of his correspondence with Jonathan Swift.
- Pun-Smoke - http://www.greenmanreview.com/film/film_punsmoke.html
Maria Nutick's commentary on puns, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Richard Lederer.
- Punishment - http://www.ssqq.com/ssqq/jokespuns.htm
An essay ridiculing puns, followed by some of the author's puns of his own.
- Richard Lederer's Verbivore - http://www.verbivore.com/
Covers wordplay and puns plus his works, analyses of language and links. Invites email on the subjects.
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