INDEX
Abbott & Costello
abstraction. See also ambiguity
The Act of Creation (Koestler)
Adams, Abigail
Addison, Joseph
Age of Enlightenment
Age of Reason
Akkadian culture
Alda, Alan
Alderson, Simon
Alexander II
Algonquin
Allen, Gracie
Allen, Woody
alphabets
ambiguity
Ammisaduqa of Babylon
The Amsterdamnable Coffee-House (Shaftesbury)
An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction (Liberman)
André 3000
Apache Indians
Archives of Sexual Behavior
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Aristotle
Armstrong, Archy
Ars Punica (Sheridan)
Assyrian culture
As You Like It (Shakespeare)
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (Holmes)
Babylonian culture
Babylonian Talmud
Bacon, Francis
Baer, Florence
Balzac, Honoré de
Barrett, Clark
Barrie, Michael
Battle of Hastings
Bayes, Thomas
Bayesian probability
Beatrice of York
Beckett, Samuel
Beckwith, Martha
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bennett Cerf’s Treasury of Atrocious Puns (Cerf)
Benny, Jack
Berle, Milton
Bhagavad Gita
Biblical puns
bilingual puns
Blackburnt, Don Ballingo
Black Death
Blair, Tony
blending systems
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Book of Esther
Book of the Courtier (Castiglione)
Boswell, Thomas
Bowes-Lyon, Elizabeth
Brain and Language
brain physiology
Brancusi, Constantin
Broca’s area
Bruce, Lenny
bubonic plague
Bull’s Head (Picasso)
Burke, Edmund
Burns, George
Bush, George W.
Button, Daniel
Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
Carlin, George
“Carnac the Magnificent” routine
Carroll, Lewis
Carson, Johnny
Carter, Elizabeth
Casanowicz, Immanuel Moses
Cash, Johnny
Cass, Lewis
Castiglione, Baldesar
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)
censorship
Cerf, Bennett
Chamberlin, Thomas
Champollion, Jean-François
Chamulan culture
Chaplin, Charlie
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (Shaftesbury)
Charlemagne
Charles I
Charles II
Chaucer, Geoffrey
“cheesy” humor
Cheke, John
Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Earl of
Chiapas, Mexico
chiasmus
children and punning
China
Chomsky, Noam
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
coffeehouse culture
Coffee House Jests (Hicks)
Coltrane, John
comedy
Contenau, Georges
Continental Congress
contrepèterie
Cornmarket Street
“corny” humor
country music
The Country Wife (Wycherley)
Cowley, Abraham
creativity. See also abstraction; ambiguity
Cromwell, Oliver
crossword puzzles
Cui Weiping
cuneiform writing
Daffynitions
Daily Evening Transcript (Boston)
Darwin, Charles
Davis, Miles
Declaration of Independence
definitions of “pun”
Deng Xiaoping
De Oratore (Cicero)
Deshpande, Madhav M.
Devereux Court
Diamond, Jared
Dickens, Charles
dictionaries
A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and their Significance (Rubinstein)
Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson)
disappearing languages
disputes over language
Donne, John
Drake, Francis
Dryden, John
Duchamp, Marcel
duels over puns
Dukenfield, William Claude (W. C. Fields)
Dutch
East India Company
Edison, Thomas
Egyptian culture
Elizabeth I, Queen of England
encryption theory
Encyclopedia of Creativity
English Civil War
English language
Enlightenment
Epic of Gilgamesh
Erard, Michael
An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (Skeat)
etymology of “pun”
Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria (Contenau)
evolutionary perspective on punning
Fabricant, Carole
Family Guy (television)
Faragher, John Mack
Farb, Peter
Feghoots
Ferdl, Weiss
Fertile Crescent cultures
Fiddler on the Roof (play)
Fields, W. C.
Fischer, Roger
Flamson, Thomas
Flüsterwitze
Foerster, Otfrid
Foerster’s Syndrome
Foro Mussolini
Fountain (Duchamp)
Fowler, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Freeman, Mickey
French
Freud, Sigmund
functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Gaelic
Gay, John
Geer, James
Get Thee to a Punnery (Lederer)
Gilchrist, Stephen
Globe Theater
God’s Revenge Against Punning (anonymous)
Godwinson, Harold
Goebbels, Joseph
A Good Talk (Menaker)
Göring, Herman
Gossen, Gary
Gottfried, Gilbert
graffiti
Grass Mud Horse
Great Fire of London
Great Firewall of China
Great Flood
Great Pyramid of Giza
Grecian Coffee-House
Greek culture and language
Grimod de La Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent
groaning at puns
Group of Sixty
The Guardian
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
Guns, Germs and Steel (Diamond)
Hammond, Paul
Harold II, King of England
Hayter, William
Headless Body in Topless Bar (Walsh)
hearing
Hebrew
“Hemispheric asymmetry and pun comprehension” (Coulson and Severens)
Henry VIII, King of England
Hicks, William
hieroglyphs
A History of Language (Fischer)
Histriomastix (Prynne)
Hitchings, Henry
Hitler, Adolf
Hobson-Jobson (Yule and Burnell)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Holt, Jim
Homer
homographic puns
homophonic puns
Homo sapiens
Hopi Indians
Horus
Hughes, Patrick
Hugo, Victor
Hung (television series)
Hussein, Saddam
Hyman, Lester
indigenous languages
intelligence and punning
Internet censorship
Irish Gaelic
irony
Italian
Janus Parallels
Japanese
Jefferson, Thomas
Jewish culture
The Jewish Week
Johnson, Samuel
“Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious” (Freud)
Jones, Richard
Jonson, Ben
Joyce, James
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare)
Kalapana
K’ehel k’op
Kerr, Clark
Kirschenbaum, Alan
knock-knock jokes
Koestler, Arthur
Kökeritz, Hëlge
Kumulipo (Hawaiian Song of Creation)
L’Almanach des gourmands (Grimod de La Reynière)
language development. See linguistics
Lapointe, Joe
Latin
Laud, William
Laughter: A Scientific Investigation (Provine)
Laurel & Hardy
La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel (Rabelais)
Law & Order (television)
Lawyers’ puns
LeBaron, Eddie
Lederer, Richard
legal battles over puns
Legman, Gershon
Leonardo Da Vinci
Levin, Max
libel
Liberman, Anatoly
Lincoln, Abraham
The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes (Ritchie)
linguistics
and childhood development
and complexity of language
and development of language
and etymology of “pun”
and evolution of English
and humor
and knock-knock jokes
and phonetic substitution
and speed of language processing
and subjectivity of words and variety of languages
Llloyd’s Coffee-House
Locke, John
London, England
London’s Coffee-House
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
MacDonogh, Giles
Mandarin
Mann, Horace
Marlowe, Christopher
Marrowskys
Martin, Dean
Marx Brothers
Mary Poppins (1964)
M*A*S*H* (television)
Mathematics and Humor (Paulos)
Mather, Cotton
Mathews, William
Mayan culture
McCarthyism
McClughan, George
McMahon, Ed
McWhorter, John
Media’s use of puns
meld puns
Menaker, Daniel
Mencken, H. L.
mentalese
Merry, W. W.
metathesis
The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses (Chamberlin)
Miller, Dennis
Milton, John
Modern English Usage (Fowler)
Modest Defence of Punning (Swift)
Monk, Thelonious
Monty Python
Murdoch, Rupert
Murphy (Beckett)
musical puns
Muskie, Ed
Mussolini, Benito
Native Americans
Navajo Indians
neologisms
Nevalainen, Terttu
newspapers
Newspeak
Newsweek
Newton, Isaac
New York Daily News
The New Yorker
New York Post
The New York Times
Nigeria
Nilsen, Don
1984 (Orwell)
No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (Legman)
Norman invasion
Norse
North Semitic alphabet
Nureyev, Rudolf
O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships
Obama, Barack
Old Testament
Orwell, George
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford Etymologist (blog)
Pan
Pãnini
paradigmatic puns
Parker, Dorothy
Parkinson, Richard
paronomasia
Partridge, Eric
Paulos, John Allen
Penn, William
Pepys, Samuel
Philip of Macedon
Philogelos
“The Philosophy of Punning” (anonymous)
phonetics
Picasso, Pablo
The Pickwick Papers (Dickens)
pictograms
Pinker, Steven
Plato
play on words
Polynesian culture
Pope, Alexander
Porson, Richard
portmanteaus
prehistoric culture
primitivism
printing
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
product names
Provine, Robert
Prynne, William
Ptolemaeus Philopunnaeus
Punch
pundit
Puns (Redfern)
The Punster’s Pocket-Book or The Art of Punning (Blackmantle)
Purim Torah
Puritans
Putnam’s Monthly
Rabelais, François
Rabinovich, Solomon Naumovich (Sholem Aleichem)
rap music
Rasika-Ranjana (Thakura)
Ratatouille (2007)
Reagan, Ronald
(RED) campaign
Redfern, Walter
The Restoration
Rhetoric (Aristotle)
riddles
Ritchie, Graeme
Roman, Freddie
Roman culture
Rosetta Stone
Rowe, Nicholas
Rubinstein, Frankie
Rumsfeld, Donald
Sanskrit
Santopadre, Frank
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Science
scientific thought
Scottish
Scribner’s
Scrubs (television)
The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English (Hitchings)
Seinfeld, Jerry
semantic humor
Seth
“Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” (Carlin)
sexual puns
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of
Shaggy Dog stories
The ‘Shaggy Dog’ Story—Its Origin, Development and Nature (Partridge)
Shakespeare, William
Shakespeare and the Diction of Common Life (Wilson)
Shawn, William
Sheridan, Thomas
Simon ben Kosiba
The Simpsons (television)
Skeat, Walter W.
Sobek
Sophocles
The Spectator
speech development
SpongeBob SquarePants (television)
Spooner, Archibald
Spoonerisms
stand-up comedy
Stanhope, Philip, Fourth Earl of Chesterfield
Statler Brothers
Steele, Richard
stereotypes
Stigmata Laudis (Prynne)
Stop Me If You’ve Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes (Holt)
Stratemeyer, Edward
Street, Mel
Studies in Symbolic Interaction (Denzin, ed.)
subversive power of puns
Sumerian culture
Swift, Jonathan
Swift, Tom
symbolic power of puns
syntagmatic puns
taboo subjects
tall tales
Talmudic puns
Thakura, Bhaktivinoda
Thatcher, Kirk
Thoreau, Henry David
Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Tiananmen Square protests
“Tom Swifties”
The Tonight Show
Tower of Babel
transposition
The Tryall of the Coffee-Man (anonymous)
Twain, Mark
Tzotzil
ubiquity of puns
Um . . . Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean (Erard)
Untermeyer, Louis
Upon the Pun (Hammond and Hughes)
Ur
Van Berkum, Jos J. A.
Victoria, Queen of England
Vietnam War
Vine, Tim
visual puns
Walker, Felix
Walsh, Robert
The Washington Post
Webster, Noah
Webster’s dictionary
Weller, Sam
Wellerisms
West, Mae
What’s My Line? (television)
Whitman, Walt
The Whole Art and Mystery of Punning (Carter)
Wilde, Oscar
William the Conqueror
Will’s Coffee-House
Wilson, Frank
Wisse, Ruth
Wit and Humor: Their Use and Abuse (Mathews)
Wit’s Coffee-House
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Witzelsucht
Woolley, Leonard
Word Origins and How We Know Them (Liberman)
wordplay
Word Play: What Happens When People Talk (Farb)
world pun championships
Wycherley, William
Yankeeisms
Yiddish humor
Yoruba language
Youngman, Henny
YouTube