Huh? A play on words is not a pun? A pun my word!

Forsooth! "Putting all your basques in one exit" is not, by your definition, an SDS since it is more than "an atrocious inversion of initial letters." And I have to admit that I put in the word atrocious only because you did!

If I were to comment on one's habit of making manifold requests I might say, "Don't put all your begs in one askit" and by your definition that might be an SDS. But in my opinion they is ALL puns.

Am I correct in assuming that you reserve the term pun for those bon mots that use alternative spellings of words with the same pronunciation to invoke a groan from the audience? As in the man whose three sons had a cattle ranch which he called Focus Farm because it's where the son's raise meat. Which the late great IA called the most perfect pun in the English language.



TEd