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- Bald Guy" in musicological circles. A pun off his name, it is a fitting description of his characteristically sporadic style of composition ...5 KB (689 words) - 14:26, 22 May 2024
- Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy ...14 KB (2,140 words) - 23:56, 17 November 2022
- once having been "useless" to him (a pun on Onesimus's name, which means "useful"), and having done him wrong. The dominant ...9 KB (1,498 words) - 19:11, 13 February 2024
- Kerényi believes the story of Hyrieus to be original, and that the pun on Orion was made for the myth, rather than the other way around. ...11 KB (1,784 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- John Donne (pronounced Dun; 1572 – March 31, 1631) was a Jacobean metaphysical poet. His works include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems ...11 KB (1,757 words) - 06:32, 8 April 2024
- as "The Axis Of Weasel," a pun on the "Axis of Evil." A popular cynical office poster states, "Eagles may soar, but ...13 KB (1,923 words) - 18:44, 17 April 2023
- The term was coined as a pun by the Russian poet, Nikolai Glazkov, in the 1940s based on an analogy with the names of Soviet official publishing ...12 KB (1,682 words) - 02:12, 23 December 2022
- Penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating single specimen ... pronunciation of the Chinese penzai (盆栽; pun-sai), the practice of cultivating ...25 KB (3,891 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- Richard Whately (February 1, 1787 – October 8, 1863) was an English logician, educator, social reformer, economist and theological writer, ...13 KB (2,059 words) - 01:50, 14 December 2022
- the world's earliest known marketing pun, Vesuvinum (combining Vesuvius and the Latin for wine, vinum). Graffiti carved on the walls shows ...14 KB (2,204 words) - 08:49, 24 November 2022
- in a city called "Bethulia," a possible pun on the Hebrew word for "virgin," is also believed by many to be fictional. However ...14 KB (2,138 words) - 00:21, 19 November 2023
- Chapman, whose adventures always end in an elaborate pun, and "the Brother," and "the Da." Some of these characters (in particular ...13 KB (2,105 words) - 17:36, 28 March 2024
- |- | colspan="2" align="center" | [[image:Ga,31.jpg|125px|Typical (melted blob)]] [[Image:Gallium1_640x480.jpg|130px|Crystallized ...15 KB (2,122 words) - 04:06, 18 April 2024
- by her responses—each of which is also a pun on the baby's name—to her successive births: *Reuben—"It is because the LORD has ...15 KB (2,478 words) - 18:54, 2 July 2024
- Yisrael BaAliyah ("Israel for aliya," or a pun, "Israel on the rise") promoting the absorption of the Soviet Jews into Israeli society ...16 KB (2,307 words) - 01:29, 11 November 2022
- * Yi Pun, nephew of the admiral and witness of the war, mentions briefly in his biographical record that the upper part (roof deck) was covered ...17 KB (2,637 words) - 00:27, 3 May 2023
- the tension with a funny comment, a pun, or an unexpected twist to the story. The comic situations portray fundamental human experiences, such ...16 KB (2,381 words) - 17:21, 16 April 2023
- and Bāna) for the sake of the pun. We must then assume that the later spelling subsequently replaced the earlier in the gotra lists and elsewhere. ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- surname is "Zhen," which is a pun on "real".) ... the Xues' maid, born Zhen Ying-lian (a pun on "she who is to be ...35 KB (5,738 words) - 17:35, 30 January 2024
- quot; for ducks), as well as to make a pun on the relationship between Munster and its provincial capital, Cork, in the passage "Three quarks ...22 KB (3,412 words) - 15:31, 7 December 2022
