| paronomasia |
| Definition: The art of making puns. |
| Example:
Is the invisible Barbie doll beyond your ken?
(from the board game MooT - the game of Etymology, Semantics, and Grammar) |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek paronomazein, to call by a different name, which in turn derives from the Greek para, beside + onomazein, to name. |
| Oxford English Dictionary: According to Alexander Pope: "The Paranomasia, or Pun, where a word, like the tongue of a jackdaw, speaks twice as much by being split." (Pope, etc. Art of Sinking, 97) |