“A bun is the lowest form of
wheat,” my father would say to me as a lad, recalling the general opinion of
the status of the pun as a purported form of wit. As an inveterate punster in
my college days — I'll spare you the painful proof, I defended the art as a literary form, noting the self-evident
fact that puns are crafted to solicit groans, not laughs. But how did the pun
acquire such a dubious reputation? the BBC News Magazine asks and
answers. It's an intriguing analysis, as one might expect from the source, but, caveat emptor, cites
several puns. The Pun
Conundrum
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