Wordplay

== Examples ==

== Examples ==

[[File:UNPieceCleaners.jpg|thumb|Many businesses use wordplay to their advantage by making their business names more memorable. This business is located near the [[United Nations Headquarters]] and plays on the term [[UN Peacekeepers]].]]

[[File:UNPieceCleaners.jpg|thumb|Many businesses use wordplay to their advantage by making their business names more memorable. This business is located near the [[United Nations Headquarters]] and plays on the term [[UN Peacekeepers]].]]

[[File:Emanuel at Ramat Aviv Mall in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.jpg|thumb|This business's sign is written in both English and Hebrew. The large character is used to make the ’N’ in Emanuel and the ‘מ’ in עמנואל. This is an example of orthographic wordplay.]]

[[File:Emanuel at Ramat Aviv Mall in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.jpg|thumb|This business's sign is written in both English and Hebrew. The large character is used to make the ’N’ in Emanuel and the ‘מ’ (cursive form) in עמנואל. This is an example of orthographic wordplay.]]

Most writers engage in wordplay to some extent, but certain writers are particularly committed to, or adept at, wordplay as a major feature of their work. [[Shakespeare]]'s "quibbles" have made him a noted punster. Similarly, [[P.G. Wodehouse]] was hailed by ''[[The Times]]'' as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own acclaimed wordplay."P. G. Wodehouse", ''The Times'', 17 February 1975, p. 14 [[James Joyce]], author of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', is another noted word-player. For example, in his ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' Joyce's phrase "they were yung and easily freudened" clearly implies the more conventional "they were young and easily frightened"; however, the former also makes an apt pun on the names of two famous [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalysts]], [[Carl Jung|Jung]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]].

Most writers engage in wordplay to some extent, but certain writers are particularly committed to, or adept at, wordplay as a major feature of their work. [[Shakespeare]]'s "quibbles" have made him a noted punster. Similarly, [[P.G. Wodehouse]] was hailed by ''[[The Times]]'' as a "comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce" for his own acclaimed wordplay."P. G. Wodehouse", ''The Times'', 17 February 1975, p. 14 [[James Joyce]], author of ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'', is another noted word-player. For example, in his ''[[Finnegans Wake]]'' Joyce's phrase "they were yung and easily freudened" clearly implies the more conventional "they were young and easily frightened"; however, the former also makes an apt pun on the names of two famous [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalysts]], [[Carl Jung|Jung]] and [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]].