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U-T Readers Work as Super-Duper Blooper Snoopers

  The dictionary defines a gaffe as a blunder; faux pas.” Faux pas derives from the French “false step,” and gaffe may descend from the French gaff, “a barbed spear used in landing a large fish.” Local...

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Why June is the Perfect Month for Perfect Marriages

Why do so many weddings take place in June? Go back centuries, and you will find that the Romans traditionally married in June to honor Juno, the goddess of marriage, and ensure an auspicious union. I...

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Are You Guilty of Phubbing the People Around You?

  “Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” asks SDSU psychologist Jean M. Twenge in a recent Atlantic magazine article. She concludes that, in many ways, they have, as evidenced by increases in...

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Enjoy a Stockingful of Punderful Christmas Humor

How do cats greet each other at Christmas? “Have a furry meowy Christmas!” How do dogs greet each other at Christmas? “Yappy howl-a-days!” How do sheep greet each other at Christmas? “Season’s...

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Happy New Year! It’s So Nice to Have You Near!

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other. In fact, 80 percent  of all New Year’s resolutions are broken by the end of February. May all your troubles last as long as...

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Weep weep, honk honk! ‘Prepostrophes’ prevail!

  I call apostrophe catastrophes “prepostrophes.” These crimes against civilized punctuation include house signs that read The Smith’s when they should read The Smiths or The Smiths’. Other folks...

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Get Thee to a Punnery

  During these perilous and uncertain days when it can seem as if the sky is falling, I’m hoping that some pun fun may add a dollop of brightness to your life. I believe that humor makes us happy, and...

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To Celebrate Library Week, Play This Bookish Game

  Tomorrow kicks off National Library Week. According to a recent Gallup poll taken before the invasion of COVID-19, visiting the library remained the most common cultural activity Americans engage in,...

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Jest for the pun of it, pun for all and all for pun!

A month ago, I invited you, my punderful readers, to submit your best original preys on words. Within hours, a punami of more than 50 original puns poured in, and by the deadline for submission, I swam...

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Let’s celebrate the cultural richness of Cinco de Mayo

  Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday commemorating the defeat of the French army at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Today, Cinco de Mayo (“5th of May”) is among the largest and most energetic...

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