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Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3 Topic Options #142345 - 04/25/05 09:21 AM Re: Please inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City Not even a weary O was heard on windless 'morrow Top #142346 - 04/25/05 10:48 AM Re: Please AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York O [/weary] Top #142347 - 04/26/05 04:36 PM Re: Please Vernon Compton enthusiast Registered: 06/29/01 Posts: 273 Loc: NZ Now it's my turn to say "ich bin schuldig". I misread the pun. I am not anything like clever enough to have figured out inselpeter's intended pun. I simply thought it was a pun on "loan/loewen", allowing for sloppy mispronunciation of one of the punned words. It seems that straining a word's pronunciation to fit a pun is de rigeur, if the many on this board are any guide, so that's what I thought this pun was. Top #142348 - 04/27/05 07:26 AM Re: Please dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK I don't think it's really strained pronunciation. [duck]Just American.[/hide] Top #142349 - 04/27/05 07:37 AM Re: Please Vernon Compton enthusiast Registered: 06/29/01 Posts: 273 Loc: NZ You do know that (a) I'm a NZer, and (b) the strained pronunciation I was talking about was of the German half of the pun? Top #142350 - 04/27/05 08:00 AM Re: Please porridge Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7210 Loc: Vermont puns are like a stroll (or a run) through a meadow, or an art gallery; each one leads to something else, perhaps unexpected, with the enjoyment coming from the reactions, some subtle, some not, that one has with each new thought or idea. the path (of thought) taken while one delves into language, and sound, is enjoyable for its own sake. or something like that. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin... Top #142351 - 04/27/05 04:13 PM Re: Please porridge inselpeter Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/14/01 Posts: 2379 Loc: New York City Band of outsiders. Yeah. I kinda like that. Top #142352 - 04/28/05 03:59 AM Re: Please dxb Pooh-Bah Registered: 03/06/02 Posts: 1692 Loc: UK You do know that (a) I'm a NZer, and (b) the strained pronunciation I was talking about was of the German half of the pun? ~ VC Er, yes, but I was picking up on your general statement: It seems that straining a word's pronunciation to fit a pun is de rigeur, if the many on this board are any guide ...and anyway, I was just trying to provoke TEd! Top Page 3 of 3 < 1 2 3 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8947 Members 16 Forums 13866 Topics 222207 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members michor, Daksh1, geoffhargreaves, Guadalupe, may2point0 8947 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 39 Guests and 4 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) wofahulicodoc 65 LukeJavan8 53 may2point0 19 Tromboniator 3 geoffhargreaves 1 jheem 1 Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 13803 Jackie 11613 tsuwm 10538 LukeJavan8 8436 Buffalo Shrdlu 7210 wofahulicodoc 6794 AnnaStrophic 6511 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400

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