7. Purr-gatory This is perhaps the queen of all multilingual puns. Magically, it works in at least five different languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and French.

These authors are fortunate to work at English-language publications. For English is unusually good for puns. It has a large vocabulary and a rich stock of homophones from which puns can be made.

Later, as the meeting was winding down and the English language lay in tattered shreds all over the floor, Lila Bondy complained, ”The word `pun` has bad press. Say `pun` and people start to ...

Researchers are using artificial intelligence techniques to create puns. Today's aren't so funny, but tomorrow's might be better.

I love the English language and working with it as many ways as possible. Good thing too as I write it every day. But I’m no good at the kind of wordplay known as puns. I enjoy them. I just can ...

We wanted to do something that was particularly British and pun-based comedy it quite a British thing. The UK Pun Championships takes place tonight.