Wine and Wordplay

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Phonetics-Based Humor

I just heard this joke and got a kick out of the humor that results when playing with the sounds in a well-known noun phrase.

What do you get when you feed a mallard to a cat?

A duck-filled, fatty-puss.

By substituting a labiodental fricative, /f/, for the first two bilabial stops, /b/ and /p/, and by deleting the second alveolar liquid, /l/, a duck-billed platypus becomes a duck-filled, fatty-puss.

Linguistics Christmas Humor

What do you call Santa's helpers?

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Subordinate Clauses.

Linguistics Humor - Pull Over Versus Pullover

A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the woman behind the wheel was knitting.

The trooper cranked down his window and yelled to the driver, "PULL OVER".

"NO", the woman yelled back, "SCARF".