A pun differs from a malapropism in that a malapropism uses an incorrect expression that alludes to another ( usually correct ) expression, but a pun uses a correct expression that alludes to another ( sometimes correct but more often absurdly humorous ) expression.

The homophonic pun, a common type, uses word pairs which sound alike ( homophones ) but are not synonymous.

" The phrase uses the homophonic qualities of " tune a " and " tuna ", as well as the homographic pun on " bass ", in which ambiguity is reached through the identical spellings of ( a string instrument ), and ( a kind of fish ).

The title of the album is directly linked to chapter 69 of The Book of Lies, a written work of Aleister Crowley, where he uses the expression " The way to succeed and the way to suck eggs " as a pun for the 69 sex position (" suck seed " and " suck eggs ").

Sometimes he uses a synonym, such as Le Vomi ( Sartre's original, La Nausée ), and sometimes he uses a homonym, such as La Lettre et le Néon ( The Letter and Neon ), a pun on L ' Être et le Néant ( Being and Nothingness ).

The answer phrase frequently uses a homophone or pun.

The method the Bakaak uses to subdue its victim is another pun of its name ; the word for " to beat using a club " is baagaakwaa ' ige.

The title of Four to the Bar's 1994 concert album, Craic on the Road, uses the Irish-language spelling as an English-language pun.

The name uses a pun on LAX, the IATA airport code for Los Angeles International Airport.

Some unusual opponents he has fought include the Ether Bunny ( a rabbit bank-robber who uses airborne incapacitating agents on his victims ), Percival Ulmer " P. U. " Evolcraft ( a somewhat deranged occultist and a satire on H. P. Lovecraft ), ambulatory living toilets, the movie monster Ferdie Cruller ( a pun on Freddy Kruger ), the Dero ( a subterranean race ), an army of incompetent and dull-witted invaders from the planet " Ineptune ", and his own evil duplicate.

The Callahan's Bar series by Spider Robinson uses " some of the worst puns known to man .... building up to the anticipated pun with skill and flair.

Other pseudonyms he uses include " Molly Eyre " ( a pun on Molière ), for his writing, and " Harry V. Derci "/" Digital Derci " for his lettering work.

The name Psammead, ( pronounced “ Sammyadd ” by the children in the story ) appears to be an inventive Greek pun coined by Nesbit ( from the Greek ψάμμος " sand " after the pattern of dryad, naiad, oread, etc.

In the comic book Asterix and Cleopatra, the author Goscinny inserted a pun about alexandrines: when the Druid Panoramix (" Getafix " in the English translation ) meets his Alexandrian ( Egyptian ) friend the latter exclaims Je suis, mon cher ami, || très heureux de te voir at which Panoramix observes C ' est un Alexandrin (" That's an alexandrine!

Onesimus is described as having been " separated " from Philemon, once having been " useless " to him ( a pun on Onesimus's name, which means " useful "), and having done him wrong.

That Onesimus was a runaway slave could be suggested by the pun Paul makes on his name ( which means " useful "), stating that ( up until the time of Philemon receiving the letter ) Onesimus had been " useless " to Philemon.

Women interested in Yaoi are called " Fujoshi " ( 腐女子 ), a pun which translate loosely as " rotten girl " or " rotten woman ".

In multiplayer online games, a MUSH ( a backronymed pun on MUD most often expanded as Multi-User Shared Hallucination, though Multi-User Shared Hack, Habitat, and Holodeck are also observed ) is a text-based online social medium to which multiple users are connected at the same time.

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

Henri Bergson defined a pun as a sentence or utterance in which " two different sets of ideas are expressed, and we are confronted with only one series of words ".

A homographic pun exploits words which are spelled the same ( homographs ) but possess different meanings and sounds.

A homonymic pun may also be polysemic, in which the words must be homonymic and also possess related meanings, a condition which is often subjective.

A recursive pun is one in which the second aspect of a pun relies on the understanding of an element in the first.

Visual puns are used in many logos, emblems, insignia, and other graphic symbols, in which one or more of the pun aspects are replaced by a picture.

Another type of visual pun exists in languages which use non-phonetic writing.

This is also an example of a multilingual pun, full understanding of which requires knowledge of more than language on the part of the listener.

French offers a closer pun: " Constant " is both a first name and the quality of steadfastness, thus the play is commonly known as De l ' importance d ' être Constant, though Jean Anouilh translated the play under the title: Il est important d ' être Aimé (" Aimé " is a name which also means " beloved ").

In 1969, Ken Thompson wrote the first UNIX system in assembly language on a PDP-7, then named Unics as a pun on Multics, as the operating system for Space Travel, a game which required graphics to depict the motion of the planets.

Leone also produced three comedies by actor / director Carlo Verdone, which were Fun Is Beautiful ( Un Sacco Bello, 1980 ), Bianco, Rosso e Verdone ( White, Red and Verdone – Verdone means " strong green " – a pun referring to the three colours of the Italian flag, the star and to director Verdone, 1981 ) and Troppo Forte ( Great !, 1986 ).

Soon after his death, Foucault's partner Daniel Defert founded the first national AIDS organisation in France, which he called AIDES ; a pun on the French language word for " help " ( aide ) and the English language acronym for the disease.

The music was cheap and repetitive and not to Holst's liking, and he referred to this kind of work as " worming " ( a pun on Wurm's name, which means " worm " in German ) and regarded it as " criminal ".

The ISIHAC version, permits players to speak and so describe a scene ( often a pun of the title word ), which the opposing team has to guess.

The series ' writing style, which was sometimes adverb-heavy, suggested a name for a type of adverbial pun promulgated in the 1960s, the " Tom Swifties ".

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

When told they were called " Anglii " ( Angles ), he replied with a Latin pun that translates well into English: “ Bene, nam et angelicam habent faciem, et tales angelorum in caelis decet esse coheredes ” (" It is well, for they have an angelic face, and such people ought to be co-heirs of the angels in heaven ").

The name itself is an acronym, a pun, and a description.

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

A daffynition ( derived from daffy and definition ) is a pun format involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word ( or group of words ).

The name " Dhrystone " is a pun on a different benchmark algorithm called Whetstone.

The Dhrystone benchmark contains no floating point operations, thus the name is a pun on the then-popular Whetstone benchmark for floating point operations.

Thus Æþelræd Unræd is a pun meaning " Noble counsel, No counsel ".

The last one, Ninti ( Lady Rib ), is also a pun on Lady Life, a title of Ninhursag herself.

The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).

The name is a pun on the earlier Fortran IV.

The term thealogy is sometimes used in the context of the Neopagan Goddess movement, a pun on theology and thea θεά " goddess " intended to suggest a feminist approach to theism.

The German title of the book by Friedrich Nietzsche Twilight of the Idols, written in 1888 and published in 1889, is Götzen-Dämmerung, a pun on the title of Wagner's opera.

Gernsback wrote fiction, including the novel Ralph 124C 41 + in 1911 ; the title is a pun on the phrase " one to foresee for many "(" one plus ").

* Title: This is usually short, and often makes use of a pun or alliteration.

The knock-knock joke is a type of joke, probably the best-known format of the pun, and is a time-honored " call and answer " exercise.

In France, the punchline is sometimes a pun on the title of a popular song, allowing the last answer to be sung:

( the tailor is accused of stealing cloth while making breeches, this is a joke about a fashion trend in Shakespearian times, also a pun for roasting the tailor's iron with the heat of hell )

Grandi called the curve versoria in Latin and suggested the term versiera for Italian, possibly as a pun: ' versoria ' is a nautical term, " sheet ", while versiera / aversiera is " she-devil ", " witch ", from Latin Adversarius, an alias for " devil " ( Adversary of God ).