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	Bilingual pun: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A bilingual pun is a pun pun quick summary:
		A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious....
		A transpositional pun is a complicated pun format with two aspects....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bi/bilingual_pun.htm (2354 words)

	Pun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a play on words that transposes the meanings of words similar sounds.
		This latter term is thought to originated from punctilious which itself derived from the Italian puntiglio (meaning "a fine point") diminutive of punto "point" from the Latin punctus past participle of pungere "to prick." These etymological sources are in the Oxford English Dictionary which nonetheless labels them "conjecture".
		The compound pun is one in which multiple puns colocated for additional and amplified effect.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pun (604 words)

	ipedia.com: Pun Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A pun is a play on words that transposes the meanings of words with similar sounds.
		The word pun itself is thought to be originally a contraction of the (now archaic) pundigrion.
		This latter term is thought to have originated from punctilious, which itself derived from the Italian puntiglio (meaning "a fine point"), diminutive of punto, "point", from the Latin punctus, past participle of pungere, "to prick." These etymological sources are reported in the Oxford English Dictionary, which nonetheless labels them "conjecture".
	www.ipedia.com /pun.html (512 words)

	What's In a Name? -- The Guide to Harry Potter Name Etymology
		There's also a bilingual pun in her name.
		A famous pun on the French word 'vol' was when Napoleon confiscated the estates of surviving nobles of the pre-Revolutionary regime.
		One of the guys whose estate was confiscated said: "C'est le premier vol de l'aigle', which normally means 'it is the first flight of the eagle' but in this case 'vol' was to be understood as 'theft'.
	www.theninemuses.net /hp/4.html (6030 words)

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